Re: RFA: "maint print type" should print all the flag bits

Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-12T03:14:38Z

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:47:26PM -0800, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:20:06PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >>> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:40:48 -0800
> >>> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps there needs to be a developers manual?
> >
> >>
> >>That's a possibility. However, the number of maint commands is quite
> >>small, and hardly warrants a separate manual.
> >>
> >>How about having an Appendix where all maint commands would be
> >>documented?
> >
> >
> >We have an internals manual, don't we? The maint commands are only
> >useful if you're wandering around in the internals. So why not say as
> >much in the user manual, and document them in the internals manual?
>
>
> I think the ``maint'' commands are like the ``remote protocol spec'' and
> the MI interface. While not for the average user, they do define
> external user accessable interfaces to GDB.

In that case, I'd almost rather rename the Internals manual to a
Developers manual - for development involving, rather than using but
not necessarily directly on, GDB.

I don't consider that fit for the User's manual.

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer