Re: [RFA] Reverse Debugging, 5/5

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:52:32 -0700
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
> > CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
> >  "drow@false.org" <drow@false.org>,
> >  "pedro@codesourcery.com" <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
> >  "teawater@gmail.com" <teawater@gmail.com>
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > > +  add_com ("reverse-next", class_run, reverse_next, _("\
> > > > +Step program backward, proceeding through subroutine calls.\n\
> > >                         ^
> > > Won't commands like "apropos" stop at the first comma when they
> > > display the short descriptions of commands?
> > Hmmm, you know, "next" has the same issue.
> >
> > (gdb) apropos next
> > [...]
> > next -- Step program
> > nexti -- Step one instruction
> >
> >
> > ... why does it stop after a comma, anyways?
>
> I have no idea, it's something that came into existence long before I
> started hacking GDB.

Daniel Berlin, May 2000


> I'd say, if not too many doc strings use the comma at the end of the
> first line, let's modify them to use a period, and remove this
> annoying limitation, leaving only the period.  WDYT?

Sounds good to me...