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Re: RFA: GDB manual: document tracepoint packets

> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:43:58 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > > + @item OK
> > > + The packet was understood and carried out.
> > > + @item
> >
> > Does this @item really need to be empty?  If so, why, and what do we
> > want to appear here in print?
> 
> It does.  This appears as a pair of matched single quotes enclosing
> nothing in both the Info and printable manuals.  The remote stub
> returns an empty packet to indicate that it didn't understand the
> command.  Blank @items are used elsewhere in the manual for this
> purpose.

Should we perhaps say "(empty)" to prevent readers from thinking it's
a typo?
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