From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com, ischis2@home.com Subject: Re: How do you use GDB to debug GDB Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3AB78AA3.A534B844@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00220.html On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > One thing puzzles me, though: why is the section "Debugging GDB with > > itself" in gdbint.texinfo instead of gdb.texinfo? Is there any reason > > not to move (or copy) it to gdb.texinfo? Can some of the elders > > please shed some light on this? > > To expand a little on Michael's comment. > > gdbint.texinfo is for internals - the things you see when you lift the > bonnet (1) and start poking around with the engine. Exactly. And, at least in my opinion, a collection of user-level tricks useful for debugging a specific program called `gdb' is not exactly ``what you see under the hood''. > As a complete asside, it has also been suggested that the two documents > be merged. From memory GCC did this. How about if we do that for 5.1? Shouldn't be too hard, I think. OTOH, the GCC manual leaves a lot to be desired (IMHO), so perhaps we shouldn't follow their lead without thinking real hard.