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Re: RFA: doc/stabs.texinfo off-by-one and spelling fixes
- To: shebs at apple dot com
- Subject: Re: RFA: doc/stabs.texinfo off-by-one and spelling fixes
- From: Nick Duffek <nsd at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:26:31 -0400
- CC: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <3963AF4E.D70AC9DE@apple.com>
On 5-Jul-2000, Stan Shebs wrote:
>The original phrasing leaves it a bit ambiguous as to whether "source file"
>is supposed to mean both .c and .h or not, so I would suggest expanding it
>to say what you just wrote ("0 for .c files...."), since that's much clearer.
In the spirit of language-neutrality exhibited by the rest of the text,
how about this instead?
"The GNU and Sun tools additionally permit a TYPE-NUMBER to be a pair
(FILE-NUMBER,FILETYPE-NUMBER) (the parentheses appear in the string,
and serve to distinguish the two cases). The FILE-NUMBER is 0 for the
base source file, 1 for the first included file, 2 for the next, and
so on."
Nick