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Re: Internals manual fixups
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Stan Shebs <stan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:15:05 +0300
- Subject: Re: Internals manual fixups
- References: <4866823C.5090002@earthlink.net> <usktyytp7.fsf@gnu.org> <488A0594.7020901@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:55:48 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> >> +(Target header files such as
> >> +@file{gdb/config/@var{arch}/tm-@var{ttt}.h},
> >> +@file{gdb/config/@var{arch}/tm-@var{arch}.h}, and
> >> +@file{config/tm-@var{os}.h} are no longer used.)
> >>
> >
> > Then why mention them at all?
> >
> Those types of files were in use for many years, and still present in
> many versions of GDB. So thinking about it, it seemed that someone
> coming from one of those to current GDB would be looking for those
> files, and wondering what happened.
Then perhaps we should have a suitable index entry, because the reader
can wonder about that any place in the manual.