This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [OBV PATCH] MPX documentation
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: "Tedeschi, Walfred" <walfred dot tedeschi at intel dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:47:56 +0000
- Subject: Re: [OBV PATCH] MPX documentation
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <1450358668-11765-1-git-send-email-walfred dot tedeschi at intel dot com> <83egelyrmd dot fsf at gnu dot org> <alpine dot DEB dot 2 dot 10 dot 1512171804370 dot 3080 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <AC542571535E904D8E8ADAE745D60B1944507680 at IRSMSX104 dot ger dot corp dot intel dot com>
> From: Joseph Myers [mailto:joseph@codesourcery.com]
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
>>> Fix some trademarks on MPX section.
>>
>> Do we have to?
>
> The GNU Coding Standards say "Please do not include any trademark acknowledgements in GNU software packages or documentation.". So the patch is wrong.
Does that mean that all existing "(R)" occurrences in the documentation
should be removed?
$ grep "(R)" *
gdb.texinfo:@cindex Intel(R) Processor Trace
gdb.texinfo:Use the @dfn{Intel(R) Processor Trace} recording format. In this
gdb.texinfo:Set the requested ring buffer size for branch tracing in Intel(R)
gdb.texinfo:that uses the btrace recording method and the Intel(R) Processor Trace
gdb.texinfo:tracing in Intel(R) Processor Trace format.
gdb.texinfo:@subsubsection Intel(R) @dfn{Memory Protection Extensions} (MPX).
gdb.texinfo:@cindex Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions (MPX).
gdb.texinfo:For the Intel(R) Processor Trace recording format, print a list of
gdb.texinfo:Intel(R) Processor Trace packets. For each packet, the following
gdb.texinfo:Enable branch tracing for the current thread using Intel(R) Processor Trace.
gdb.texinfo:This thread uses the @dfn{Intel(R) Processor Trace} (@acronym{Intel(R)
gdb.texinfo:The size of the @acronym{Intel(R) PT} ring buffer in bytes.
gdb.texinfo:The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.i386.mpx} is an optional feature representing Intel(R)
Thanks,
Pedro Alves