changes to gdb.texinfo

Dmitry Sivachenko dima@Chg.RU
Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000


WHOOPS!  It seems I forgot to attach ther patch itself.  Here is it:

--- gdb.texinfo.old	Sun Jan  2 20:55:42 2000
+++ gdb.texinfo	Sun Jan  2 20:57:35 2000
@@ -6373,13 +6373,13 @@
 
 @item CAP(@var{c})
 If @var{c} is a lower case letter, it returns its upper case
-equivalent, otherwise it returns its argument
+equivalent, otherwise it returns its argument.
 
 @item CHR(@var{i})
 Returns the character whose ordinal value is @var{i}.
 
 @item DEC(@var{v})
-Decrements the value in the variable @var{v}.  Returns the new value.
+Decrements the value in the variable @var{v} by one.  Returns the new value.
 
 @item DEC(@var{v},@var{i})
 Decrements the value in the variable @var{v} by @var{i}.  Returns the
@@ -6396,7 +6396,7 @@
 Returns the index of the last member of @var{a}.
 
 @item INC(@var{v})
-Increments the value in the variable @var{v}.  Returns the new value.
+Increments the value in the variable @var{v} by one.  Returns the new value.
 
 @item INC(@var{v},@var{i})
 Increments the value in the variable @var{v} by @var{i}.  Returns the
@@ -6417,8 +6417,8 @@
 
 @item ORD(@var{x})
 Returns the ordinal value of its argument.  For example, the ordinal
-value of a character is its ASCII value (on machines supporting the
-ASCII character set).  @var{x} must be of an ordered type, which include
+value of a character is its @sc{ascii} value (on machines supporting the
+@sc{ascii} character set).  @var{x} must be of an ordered type, which include
 integral, character and enumerated types.
 
 @item SIZE(@var{x})
@@ -6463,7 +6463,7 @@
 @item
 Character constants consist of a single character enclosed by a pair of
 like quotes, either single (@code{'}) or double (@code{"}).  They may
-also be expressed by their ordinal value (their ASCII value, usually)
+also be expressed by their ordinal value (their @sc{ascii} value, usually)
 followed by a @samp{C}.
 
 @item
@@ -8684,7 +8684,7 @@
 suppressed.
 
 Response @var{data} can be run-length encoded to save space.  A @samp{*}
-means that the next character is an ASCII encoding giving a repeat count
+means that the next character is an @sc{ascii} encoding giving a repeat count
 which stands for that many repetitions of the character preceding the
 @samp{*}.  The encoding is @code{n+29}, yielding a printable character
 where @code{n >=3} (which is where rle starts to win).  The printable
@@ -9179,7 +9179,7 @@
 
 @item @code{O}@var{XX...}
 @tab
-@var{XX...} is hex encoding of ASCII data.  This can happen at any time
+@var{XX...} is hex encoding of @sc{ascii} data.  This can happen at any time
 while the program is running and the debugger should continue to wait
 for 'W', 'T', etc.
 


Hope you will apply it.

Thanks again,
--dima


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