From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1155 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2008 19:45:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 1141 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Apr 2008 19:45:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il (HELO mtaout3.012.net.il) (84.95.2.7) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:44:56 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([83.130.1.82]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JZW00F0NCUILF36@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:59:07 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:47:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Stepping off breakpoints in non-stop debugging mode (resubmit) In-reply-to: <200804252018.31245.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <200804100003.05361.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200804111646.54575.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200804252018.31245.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00582.txt.bz2 > From: Pedro Alves > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:18:31 +0100 > > + add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("can-use-displaced-stepping", class_maintenance, > + &can_use_displaced_stepping, _("\ > +Set debugger's willingness to use displaced stepping to step \n\ > +over breakpoints."), _("\ > +Show debugger's willingness to use displaced stepping to step \n\ > +over breakpoints."), _("\ These two sentences must not take more than one line, I think. That's because some of the help commands, like apropos, only show one line, so in this case they will show an incomplete sentence. > +@kindex maint set can-use-displaced-stepping > +@kindex maint show can-use-displaced-stepping > +@cindex displaced stepping support > +@item maint set can-use-displaced-stepping > +@itemx maint show can-use-displaced-stepping > +Control whether or not @value{GDBN} will do displaced stepping if the > +target supports it. The default is on. @dfn{Displaced stepping} is a It is better to have @dfn at the first usage of the term, but that's a minor nit. > +way to single-step over breakpoints without removing them from the > +inferior, by executing an out-of-line copy of the instruction that was > +originally at the breakpoint location. It is also known as > +out-of-line single-stepping. If "out-of-line single-stepping" is a term known to people, it would be good to have an index entry here for that term. Otherwise, the doco bits are fine with me. Thanks.