Re: FYI: minsyms documentation

[Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>]

On 12/22/11 12:49 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Tom Tromey<tromey@redhat.com>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:13:19 -0700
> >
> > My working assumption is that gdbint.texinfo is barely maintained at
> > all.
> Only because none of the active developers want to document GDB
> internals in a Texinfo manual.  Therefore, the sad state of
> gdbint.texinfo is a testament of what the majority of GDB maintainers
> think it should look like.

Perhaps that means we should rethink whether we need gdbint.texinfo at 
all.  If everybody is able to madly hack away at the code without ever 
consulting the internals manual, then what purpose is it serving 
exactly?  Are newbies learning by reading the manual, or reading the 
code?  If the latter, then gdbint.texinfo content might get more 
attention if it was redistributed into 1-2 page blocks at the tops of 
relevant source files.

Stan