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Re: [commit] Mention VAX floating-point support in NEWS

> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:22:43 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Sorry Eli. I didn't want to offend you.

I didn't take any offence.  Sorry if it sounded like I did.

> But I thought I could just add some blurb to NEWS for new features
> that went in.  Unless of course there would be some controversy over
> whether it really is a new feature or about the wording.  But I
> didn't think that was the case for the VAX floating point support.

I think we should carefully consider what goes into NEWS and how it is
worded.  NEWS is user-level documentation and should be treated as
such, IMO.
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