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Re: Internals manual update
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:21:58 +0300
- Subject: Re: Internals manual update
- References: <485D83C2.6020208@earthlink.net>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:42:10 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
>
> So as I've been refreshing my memory about GDB code, I've also been
> going through the internals manual and making it be more consistent with
> the current state of things.
Thanks!
> Would people be content with me posting a mega-patch(es) for overall
> progress, or would they prefer individual patches for each specific
> change?
Mega-patches are okay with me, provided that the ChangeLog entries to
go with them allow to figure out which part belongs to what change.
> Also, one specific change I made was to whack down the host stuff to
> basically one line that says "we used to have host config files",
> instead of a full section with a warning at the top that the material is
> of historical interest only. My thought is that if someone really wanted
> to research a long-gone macro more thoroughly than just review of
> ChangeLog entries, they would want to get old releases anyway, which
> would have both internals manual and sources using that macro.
Agreed. The reason the historical parts are there is that no one made
them up to date.
> In general it seems to me that the internals manual should
> correspond to current sources closely, only have the occasional
> reference to ancient history.
Right.
Thanks again for working on this.