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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation changes for the new zero-hexadecimal format
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Luis Machado <lgustavo at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 21:01:28 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation changes for the new zero-hexadecimal format
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 14:36:47 -0300
>
> This patch updates the documentation to reflect the addition of the new
> zero-hexadecimal format option for -var-set-format and also adds a NEWS entry
> for the change.
>
> I changed it from zhexadecimal to zero-hexadecimal so the IDE folks can
> properly translate the string to something more reasonable.
This is OK, but please make the ChangeLog entries more
self-explanatory. Right now, they are not really informative:
* NEWS: Add new note to MI changes.
* gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Variable Objects): Update text for
-var-set-format.
They should mention "zero-hexadecimal", at the least.