From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32537 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2005 04:32:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 32526 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Nov 2005 04:32:25 -0000 Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:32:25 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-244-88.inter.net.il [84.228.244.88]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BVI42349 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 06:32:21 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:40:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Mark Kettenis CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <200511012122.jA1LMhkG032239@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (message from Mark Kettenis on Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:22:43 +0100 (CET)) Subject: Re: [commit] Mention VAX floating-point support in NEWS Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <200511010731.jA17VS9g027288@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200511012122.jA1LMhkG032239@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00026.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:22:43 +0100 (CET) > From: Mark Kettenis > CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > Sorry Eli. I didn't want to offend you. I didn't take any offence. Sorry if it sounded like I did. > But I thought I could just add some blurb to NEWS for new features > that went in. Unless of course there would be some controversy over > whether it really is a new feature or about the wording. But I > didn't think that was the case for the VAX floating point support. I think we should carefully consider what goes into NEWS and how it is worded. NEWS is user-level documentation and should be treated as such, IMO.