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Formatting of packet descriptions in GDB manual
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:24:57 -0800
- Subject: Formatting of packet descriptions in GDB manual
The way gdb.texinfo describes packet formats is pretty wierd. The
.texinfo says stuff like:
@table @r
...
@item @code{q}@code{ThreadExtraInfo}@code{,}@var{id} --- extra thread info
which is rendered in .info files as:
`q'`ThreadExtraInfo'`,'ID -- extra thread info
Those quotes aren't helping anything at all. The rendering in .pdf
files is fine.
I'd much rather see:
@table @r
...
@item @code{qThreadExtraInfo,@var{id}} --- extra thread info
which renders in .info as:
`qThreadExtraInfo,ID' -- extra thread info
and renders the same in .pdf.
What do folks think?