Re: stabs.texinfo update for macro define/undefine

Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-31T22:39:20Z

> cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:18:03 -0500
> From: David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>
>
> You mentioned it, but I guess I misunderstood. I ran both `make dvi'
> and `make info' and looked at the resulting files. The info file
> stayed in fewer than 80 columns; I didn't see any TeX complaints about
> an overfull hbox, nor did the dvi file have a black box on any of
> those lines. So, I guessed that they looked too long but were
> actually okay.

Maybe due to whitespace TeX succeeded to squeeze them in.

> In the future, how should I test to make sure that the lines are not
> too long?

Any line longer than 64 characters in an @example should be shortened.

> For this, how about:
>
> @example
> .stabs "NONE 42",54,0,1,0
> .stabs "TWO(a,b) (a + (a) + 2 * b)",54,0,2,0
> .stabs "ONE(c) (c + 19)",54,0,3,0
> .stabs "ONE",58,0,10,0
> .stabs "ONE(c) (c + 23)",54,0,11,0
> @end example
>
> NOTE: In the example above, @code{54} is @code{N_MAC_DEFINE} and @code{58}
> is @code{N_MAC_UNDEF}.
>
> ? This is the text in the patch attached below.

This is fine; it's exactly what I was suggesting.

> > With these changes, this can go in. Thanks.
>
> Thanks. I don't have write after approval privileges.

I committed the patch for you. Thanks again for working on this.