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Re: RFA: GDB manual: document tracepoint packets
On 11/19/05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > + @node Tracepoint Packets
> > + @section Tracepoint Packets
>
> Suggest a @cindex entry here, something like "tracepoint packets".
D'oh. Of course.
> > + Here we describe the packets @value{GDBN} uses to implement
> > + tracepoints (@pxref{Tracepoints}).
>
> I think it would be good to have an @xref from the "Tracepoints" node
> to here as well.
Added.
> > + Replies:
> > + @table @samp
> > + @item OK
> > + The packet was understood and carried out.
> > + @item
>
> Does this @item really need to be empty? If so, why, and what do we
> want to appear here in print?
It does. This appears as a pair of matched single quotes enclosing
nothing in both the Info and printable manuals. The remote stub
returns an empty packet to indicate that it didn't understand the
command. Blank @items are used elsewhere in the manual for this
purpose.
> > + A successful reply from the stub and indicates that the stub has found
> ^^^
> That "and" seems extraneous.
It is.
> Other than that, this can go in. Thanks again for working on this.
I'll commit it. Thanks very much for your prompt review!