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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: csilvers@google.com (Craig Silverstein)
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Update NEWS/texinfo with compressed debug sections info
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk5iu2rvw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080419055650.3842A3F24C4@localhost>

> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:56:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: csilvers@google.com (Craig Silverstein)
> 
> I took a stab (no pun intended) at documenting the
> compressed-debug-section patch, which I submitted earlier this
> evening.

Thanks.

> I'm not really sure what information is appropriate to
> include, or where to put it; any suggestions on this patch are
> appreciated.

Your decisions are all fine with me.

> +* gdb can now read compressed debug sections, as produced by GNU gold

Upper-case "GDB", please.

> +@value{GDBN} will use the zlib library, if available, to read

Please give "zlib" the @samp markup (i.e., @samp{zlib}), here and
elsewhere in the text you wrote.

Also, an index entry here would be a good idea.  Something like:

  @cindex compressed debug sections

> +compressed debug sections.  Some linkers, such GNU gold, are capable
                                             ^^^^^
"such as"

Other than that, this can go in.  Thanks!


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-19  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-19  8:04 Craig Silverstein
2008-04-19 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-04-19 16:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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