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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com
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In-reply-to: <200509141710.39794.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> (message from Paul
	Gilliam on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:10:39 -0700)
Subject: Re: [PATCH]*3  Re: [RFC] "info powerpc"
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
References: <200509091633.02630.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> <200509141710.39794.pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
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> From: Paul Gilliam <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:10:39 -0700
> 
> The second, 'altivec_alias.patch', functions like the first, except that infcmd.c is not touched.  Instead, an 'info powerpc altivec' command
> is added that turns itself into an alias for "info vector" the first time it's called.  This can't be done with add_com_alias because the alias and 
> the command being aliased are on different command chains.
> 
> The final patch, 'no_more_altivec.patch' depreciates the "info powerpc" command prefix and changes the testsuite to use "info vector".  To make
> this work, 'lookup_cmd_composition' in cli/cli-decode.c had to be changed so that a prefix command that has no sub-commands
> can be depreciated.

Please accompany any changes to user-visible behavior (such as new
commands or changes in how existing command behave) with appropriate
changes to the user manual.  Thanks.