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Re: FYI: minsyms documentation
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:07:51 -0700
- Subject: Re: FYI: minsyms documentation
- References: <m3vcp972sf.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4EF38DAD.3040106@earthlink.net> <m3y5u4tleo.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <8362h8z60x.fsf@gnu.org> <4EF39E85.3050207@earthlink.net> <83vcp7xqxx.fsf@gnu.org>
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Stan> Are newbies learning by reading the manual, or reading the code?
Eli> What newbies? The people who hack at the core features of GDB can be
Eli> counted on fingers of a single hand, and they didn't change in years.
There have been multiple new contributors since I started seriously
working on GDB 3 years ago.
Eli> Again, the current content of that manual can only do a mis-service,
Eli> so redistributing it is wasted effort.
This is not entirely true. Some of gdbint.texinfo is badly out of date,
but some of it is still relevant. This is why I have not tried to
delete it. For example, it is still the only documentation for ui-out
and for cleanups; and, due to licensing, I think that text cannot be
moved into comments in the code without special dispensation from the
FSF.
Tom