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Re: [PATCH] doc of pre-defined or builtin trace state variables
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: David Taylor <dtaylor at usendtaylorx2l dot lss dot emc dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:40:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc of pre-defined or builtin trace state variables
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:15:26 -0500
> From: David Taylor <dtaylor@usendtaylorx2l.lss.emc.com>
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > > From: David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:49:05 -0500
> > >
> > > Our tracepoint users want certain capabilities for which 'pre-defined' or
> > > 'builtin' trace state variables seem like they would be a good fit. So,
> > > I started looking into what it would take to modify both GDB and our GDB
> > > stub to support them.
> > >
> > > Imagine my surprise to discover that GDB already supports them, but it
> > > is not documented!
> > >
> > > Here's a patch. The pdf, html, and info targets build without
> > > complaint. The modified paragraph in the pdf file looks okay.
> > >
> > > gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> > >
> > > 2015-02-12 David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>
> > >
> > > * gdb.texinfo (Tracepoint Packets): Document the builtin and name
> > > fields of the QTDV packet.
> >
> > Thanks, this is OK.
>
> Thanks. Will someone commit it for me? (I don't have commit privs.)
Done.
Should this be cherry-picked to the 7.9 branch?