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Re: [patch] Better display command-line macros + doc addon [Re: [patch] doc: Document macros defined from command-line]
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 01:14:22 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:16:10 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > . Tell about the way of defining macros before describing what GDB
> > does in that case.
> > . Don't qualify the -Dfoo=bar feature by "Unix", since on non-Unix
> > platforms GDB supports only GCC-produced debug info.
> > . Use @var for meta-syntactic variables that stand for something
> > else.
>
> Understood, used your text.
>
>
> > > +Defined at /home/jimb/gdb/macros/play/sample.c:0
> > > +#define __STDC__ 1
> >
> > Should we perhaps show "-D__STDC__=1" here?
>
> Good idea, a code patch attached.
>
>
> > Also, perhaps add a short notice of this feature at the beginning of
> > the section, where "info macro" is described.
>
> Made there the change.
Thank you.