Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.

Carlos O'Donell carlos_odonell@mentor.com
Wed Apr 11 22:07:00 GMT 2012


On 4/11/2012 5:48 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> What's the story with these hidden, but documented MI functions?
> 
> This was a long time ago. My guess is that these commands were part
> of the initial design, and the design got captured as a hidden part
> of the documentation, but the commands themselves never got implemented.
> Most of the time, it's mostly a matter of writing the code... They
> usually get implemented when someone really needing the functionality
> just goes ahead and implements it.
> 

Excellent, that's what I like to hear.

It was just sufficiently odd to see documentation *before* code that I thought I should ask.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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