Re: GDB manual and @smallbook

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

I don't remember responding to this, but in case I haven't, I am actually
working on these problems, should be done in a day or two.

Stan

Brian Youmans wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid this isn't going to constitute a .diff, but here are
> problems that I noted with the file version I downloaded.
> 
> What I ended up downloading was the latest version of gdb.texinfo
> and of all-cfg.texinfo from your CVSWeb interface.  These I combined
> with old versions of the readline doc (so I won't comment on that part yet).
> 
> What is the next version going to be - 4.19, or 5.0?
> 
> - Brian Y., FSF office staff
> 
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> 
> The ISBN where listed should be 1-882114-77-9.
> 
> I would prefer having the line
> "Printed copies are available for $20 each."
> eliminated (so that we can change the price someday).
> 
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> Line 1172:
> tracepoints -- Tracing of program execution without stopping the program
> 
> This is too long for @smallbook format.  Break after "stopping" with a "\"?
> 
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> line 1892-4:
> 
>     * 3 system thread 26607  worker (wptr=0x7b09c318 "@@") at quicksort.c:137
>       2 system thread 26606  0x7b0030d8 in __ksleep () from /usr/lib/libc.2
>       1 system thread 27905  0x7b003498 in _brk () from /usr/lib/libc.2
> 
> Too long.  Replace @example with @smallexample?
> Still a little long, but maybe we can live with it.
> 
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> line 6972:
> Values of time mode locations are represented by @code{TIME(<secs>:<nsecs>)}.
> 
> Too long.
> 
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> line 7421:
> "/home/smith/cc_progs/a.out": can't open to read symbols: Invalid bfd target.
> 
> Too long - replace @example with @smallexample?
> Again, still long - break somehow?
> 
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> line 8757:
> 
> @tab @code{A}@var{arglen}@code{,}@var{argnum}@code{,}@var{arg}@code{,...}
> 
> Too long - break somehow.
> 
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> line 9180:
> 
> @item @code{N}@var{AA}@code{;}@var{tttttttt}@code{;}@var{dddddddd}@code{;}@var{bbbbbbbb} @strong{(obsolete)}
> 
> Too long - break somehow.
> 
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> line 9199-9223:
> 
> Parts of this multitable just don't work in @smallbook.  @multitable
> and @smallbook don't mix well.  If you want to keep the multitable,
> perhaps someone could redo this section and make a patch for use when
> @smallbook is used?
> 
> I will complain to RMS and the Texinfo maintainer about this.
> 
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> line 9249:
> 
> @item
> @tab reply @code{Text=}@var{xxx}@code{;Data=}@var{yyy}@code{;Bss=}@var{zzz}
> 
> Too long - need to be broken.
> 
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> line 9262:
> 
> @item remote command
> @tab @code{q}@code{Rcmd,}@var{COMMAND}
> 
> Too long - need to be broken.
> 
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