Stepping off breakpoints in non-stop debugging mode (resubmit)

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Thu Apr 10 20:12:00 GMT 2008


> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:49:35 +0100
> 
> How about this?
> 
> @kindex maint set can-use-displaced-stepping
> @kindex maint show can-use-displaced-stepping
> @cindex displaced stepping support
> @item maint set can-use-displaced-stepping
> @itemx maint show can-use-displaced-stepping
> Control whether or not @value{GDBN} will do displaced stepping if the
> target supports it.  The default is on.  Displaced stepping is a way
> to single-step over breakpoints without removing them from the
> inferior, by executing an out-of-line copy of the instruction under
> the breakpoint.  It is also known as out-of-line single-stepping.

This is okay, but instead of ``under the breakpoint'' I'd suggest to
say ``at the breakpoint location''.

>  +Displays the current state of displaying @value{GDBN} displaced stepping
>  +debugging info.

This is fine, but I think this is even better:

  +Displays the current state of displaying @value{GDBN} debugging
  +info related to displaced stepping.

> A couple of typos were also fixed in comments.  Updated
> patch attached.

Thanks, approved, with the above gotchas.



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