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Re: Autogenerate gdbarch doc for internals manual


Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Stan Shebs wrote:

Undeterred by the stunning lack of response to my last internals manuals query
(http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-07/msg00309.html, not too late to speak up
:-) ), I bring up an idea suggested on irc, which is to generate the internals
manual's detailed description of gdbarch methods from gdbarch.sh . Although
I'm not generally a fan of autogenerated docs - I find they tend to be heavy
on syntax, and light on semantics - the internals manual has fallen way behind
what is actually in gdbarch, and there are other manual sections that can talk
more about how all the different methods work together.

Mechanically, the way I see it working is that running gdbarch.sh produces a
third file, doc/gdbarch.texi, which is then included in doc/gdbint.texinfo.
Some gdbint.texinfo bits will migrate into gdbarch.sh; I don't think there
will be a problem including texinfo markup in gdbarch.sh, just need basic
@foo{} constructs to get passed through. This is going to be more of a
background task for me, but I wanted to get some agreement on the direction
before starting to tinker.

You have the issue that's been discussed before in the GCC context: the need for an appropriate license text on gdbarch.sh to allow parts of it to be used in the manual that's under a different license from the code. Good luck getting the FSF to produce a GPLv3 exception text for this in reasonable time given how long all the other exceptions have taken so far (getting the manual GPLed seems even less likely).
Ouch, I hadn't even thought of that! But then how does that work for libiberty, which collects snippets from LGPL files and pastes them into functions.texi, which is included in the GFDLed manual?

Stan


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