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Re: [PATCH 4/8] command 'set debug notification'.
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:56:52 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> On 12/11/2012 07:06 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >> > + add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("notification", no_class, ¬if_debug,
> >> > + _("\
> >> > +Set debugging of async remote notification."), _("\
> >> > +Show debugging of async remote notification."), _("\
> >> > +When non-zero, async remote notification specific"
> >> > +" internal debugging is enabled."),
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I think not "debugging" is enabled, but "debugging info" is enabled.
>
> This command just enables/disables internal debugging/logging output,
> it is not about debug info, as in dwarf, etc.
Granted, I understand that. If you suggest to say
When non-zero, debugging output about async remote notifications is
enabled.
then I have no objections. But saying that "internal debugging is
enabled" is certainly inaccurate and perhaps even misleading, IMO.