Re: Fix "maint time" command documentation.

["Anmol P. Paralkar" <anmol at freescale dot com>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:20:49 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: "Anmol P. Paralkar" <anmol@freescale.com>
> >
> >   The documentation for the "maint time" command does not mention the units of time.
> >   Also, there are a couple of typos in there. I have attempted to fix these in the
> >   following patch; please let me know if we could word/punctuate this better and
> >   I'll be happy to re-spin.
>
> Thanks.  I have a few suggestions for a better change:
>
> >    Control whether to display the execution time for each command.  If
> >    set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time it
> > ! took (in seconds) to execute each command, following the command's own output.
>
> It would be better to place the units right after "time":
>
>    Control whether to display the execution time for each command.
>    If set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time
>    (in seconds) it took to execute each command, following the
>    command's own output.
>
> > ! The time is not printed for the commands that run on the target, since
> >    there's no mechanism currently to compute how much time was spend
>                                                                 ^^^^^
> "spent"
>
> > ! by @value{GDBN} and how much time was spend by the program been debugged;
>                                          ^^^^^                ^^^^
> "spent" and "being"
>
> > ! this is not possible currently.
>
> I think this part is not needed.  The sentence already says that
> "there's no mechanism currently" to do this, so this addition simply
> reiterates the same thing.
>
> Thanks.

Hello Eli,

 Thank you for your suggestions; please see the new version with them, below.

Regards,
Anmol.

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+ 2010-07-02  Anmol P. Paralkar <anmol@freescale.com>
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+ 	* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Mention units of time
+ 	and fix typos in documentation for command "maint time".
+
  2010-07-01  Pedro Alves  <pedro@codesourcery.com>

  	* gdb.texinfo (Create and Delete Tracepoints): Add more index
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*************** switch (@pxref{Mode Options}).
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  @kindex maint time
  @cindex time of command execution
  @item maint time
! Control whether to display the execution time for each command.  If
! set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time it
! took to execute each command, following the command's own output.
! The time is not printed for the commands that run the target, since
! there's no mechanism currently to compute how much time was spend
! by @value{GDBN} and how much time was spend by the program been debugged.
! it's not possibly currently 
! This can also be requested by invoking @value{GDBN} with the
! @option{--statistics} command-line switch (@pxref{Mode Options}).

  @kindex maint translate-address
  @item maint translate-address @r{[}@var{section}@r{]} @var{addr}
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  @kindex maint time
  @cindex time of command execution
  @item maint time
! Control whether to display the execution time for each command.
! If set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time
! (in seconds) it took to execute each command, following the command's
! own output.  The time is not printed for the commands that run on the
! target, since there's no mechanism currently to compute how much time
! was spent by @value{GDBN} and how much time was spent by the program
! being debugged.  This can also be requested by invoking @value{GDBN}
! with the @option{--statistics} command-line switch (@pxref{Mode Options}).

  @kindex maint translate-address
  @item maint translate-address @r{[}@var{section}@r{]} @var{addr}