RFA: "maint print type" should print all the flag bits

Jim Blandy jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com
Tue Dec 11 10:55:00 GMT 2001


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > They're only meant for use by GDB developers.
> 
> How do you expect the GDB developers to discover their existence if
> they aren't documented?  Even if they do discover their existence, how
> would a developer who never used a particular command know what it
> does?  The built-in doc strings are terse and don't explain much.  For
> example, suppose i use "maint print type" and see it print
> TYPE_FLAG_TARGET_STUB--how do I figure out what that means?  (If you
> think that GDB's sources explain that clearly, think again ;-)
> 
> I think every command should be documented in the manual.

Well, you're right, of course.  There's no good reason *not* to
document them, other than laziness.



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