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

Andrew Cagney
2001-12-12T01:47:35Z

> 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.

enjoy,
Andrew