From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
To: ac131313@cygnus.com, shebs@apple.com
Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com, ischis2@home.com
Subject: Re: Merging manuals (was Re: How do you use GDB to debug GDB)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <200103202016.MAA27812@bosch.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00203.html

Another argument for separation of gdb.texinfo and gdbint.texinfo:

gdb.texinfo is in some sense a public interface which is meant to be
stable.  But information in gdbint.texinfo is not a public interface
and can change at any moment.

For example, someone could re-implement the symbol table with tries
instead of hash tables (I would really like this!).  That would affect
gdbint.texinfo, but it would not affect gdb.texinfo.

Maybe "public"/"private" are not the right words but there is a
definite difference here.

Michael