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Re: add set cp-abi command
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:31:35 +0300 (IDT)
- Subject: Re: add set cp-abi command
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Jim Ingham wrote:
> I got distracted from this for a little while... Here is a final
> version with something in the texi file as well.
Thanks. Some comments about the doco patch:
> + @kindex set cp-abi
> + @item set cp-abi
> + @itemx set cp-abi auto
> + Set the C++ ABI that gdb will use to decode C++ objects. The default is "auto"
> + which means gdb will assume the gnu-v2 ABI unless it sees symbols that
> + look like the gnu-v3 ABI, in which case it will switch to the gnu-v3 ABI. With
> + no arguments, list the available C++ ABIs.
Please explain in a few words what "ABI" means; I don't think Joe Random
C++ User will necessarily know that. A list of possible values one can
use (in addition to "auto") is also something the manual should have.
(Btw, I think that the built-in documentation of the "set abi" command
could also use a word of explanation of the term "ABI".)
Please change "auto" to ``auto'' (this looks much prettier in the printed
version, and is translated into "auto" in the Info output), and please
use C@t{++} instead of C++ (also for aesthetic reasons).
Finally, we use `@value{GDBN}' instead of just `gdb' throughout the
manual (evidently to allow custom versions of manuals for GDB that is
named differently).