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Re: [rfa] gdbserver 2/n - signals


On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:31:36PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Well, the way I see it is that the signal numbering convention is part
> > of the remote protocol, and so should be documented in the manual; at
> > the same time I didn't really want to duplicate the hundred and
> > something signals inline in the texinfo documentation.
> 
> Then perhaps this info shouldn't be in the manual.
> 
> > I don't really understand why the remote protocol is documented in the
> > user's manual, either :)
> 
> There's a difference between documenting a protocol and talking about
> enumerations from GDB sources.

The signal numbers are a part of the protocol.  I think they should be
documented somewhere beside GDB source; would you prefer that I simply
list them in the manual somewhere?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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