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Re: A new strategy for internals documentation
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gnu at toad dot com, yao at codesourcery dot com, stanshebs at earthlink dot net, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:35:18 +0300
- Subject: Re: A new strategy for internals documentation
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, yao@codesourcery.com, stanshebs@earthlink.net,
> gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:15:48 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Eli> Once again, the main problem (and some will say it's not a problem at
> Eli> all) is that the majority of GDB developers don't see any need in this
> Eli> manual's existence, or in any documentation of the internals besides
> Eli> what's in the comments.
>
> I just don't think this is true.
That is my conclusion from the discussions on this matter. I can show
citations, if needed.
If I'm wrong, please tell what form do you want the documentation of
the GDB internals to have.