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[commit] Improve documentation of Windows debugging options
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:19:13 +0200
- Subject: [commit] Improve documentation of Windows debugging options
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
FYI: I found some typos and inaccuracies in the description of the
Windows "set/show debug..." options, so I fixed them as below.
Committed.
2006-01-28 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Cygwin Native): Fix typos. Clarify the types of
debugging information produced by the various "set debug..."
options.
Index: gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.309
diff -u -r1.309 gdb.texinfo
--- gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 23 Jan 2006 16:28:37 -0000 1.309
+++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 28 Jan 2006 18:15:56 -0000
@@ -13386,22 +13386,26 @@
@kindex set debugevents
@item set debugevents
-This boolean value adds debug output concerning events seen by the debugger.
+This boolean value adds debug output concerning kernel events related
+to the debuggee seen by the debugger. This includes events that
+signal thread and process creation and exit, DLL loading and
+unloading, console interrupts, and debugging messages produced by the
+Windows @code{OutputDebugString} API call.
@kindex set debugexec
@item set debugexec
This boolean value adds debug output concerning execute events
-seen by the debugger.
+(such as resume thread) seen by the debugger.
@kindex set debugexceptions
@item set debugexceptions
-This boolean value adds debug ouptut concerning exception events
-seen by the debugger.
+This boolean value adds debug output concerning exceptions in the
+debuggee seen by the debugger.
@kindex set debugmemory
@item set debugmemory
-This boolean value adds debug ouptut concerning memory events
-seen by the debugger.
+This boolean value adds debug output concerning debuggee memory reads
+and writes by the debugger.
@kindex set shell
@item set shell