From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30344 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2002 15:38:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30299 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2002 15:38:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jun 2002 15:38:18 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (vpn50-29.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.29]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g5AFcEi03069; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:38:14 -0400 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 9EB6F1C117; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:38:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:38:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Just-in-time debugging Message-ID: <20020610153837.GJ6201@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <3D04C2F3.7000104@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D04C2F3.7000104@cygnus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00079.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:17:07AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: >>On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Unless we want to start documenting things like "How to use ulimit" in >>>the gdb manual, I don't think it is necessarily appropriate for us >>>to mention the setting of environment variables for cygwin. >> >>The variable is related to GDB, so it sounds appropriate. > >Yes. While not the internal user interface, it definitly very useful >and makes someone using GDB's life easier. > >Similar to this is knowing how to use GDB to create a stack backtrace. As I'd mentioned, I think a better example is the unix ulimit command. A grep of 'ulimit' does not unearth anything in the gdb documentation directory. Certainly, if a user wants to create a core file (and why would you create a core file except for debugging?) they'd need to know about this. If you want to start populating the gdb documentation with OS-specific hints, then I think you should start with linux. In the meantime, I'm not going to be providing documentation for this. I don't want to have to worry about modifying the information in two places when/if we change the CYGWIN environment variable. cgf