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Re: [patch] Remove unimplemented MI commands [Re: Learn function name by its address]
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:50:30 -0700
> From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tromey@redhat.com, msnyder@vmware.com,
> andre.poenitz@nokia.com, gdb@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, no (for this part). ?I asked to leave the text there, just
> > commented away with @ignore..@end ignore.
>
> Shouldn't we be consistent?
> If this constitutes "unwanted clutter" in the code, surely it also
> does in the docs?
I thought the suggestion was to comment it out in the code as well.
But in any case, no, there's no consistency issue here: while most
humans read the code, almost no one reads the Texinfo sources of the
docs. People read the manual in its Info, HTML, or PDF formats, where
the @ignore'd parts are gone.