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Re: Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:07:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.
- References: <4F85F7F1.1070304@mentor.com> <20120411214822.GN25623@adacore.com>
On 4/11/2012 5:48 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> What's the story with these hidden, but documented MI functions?
>
> This was a long time ago. My guess is that these commands were part
> of the initial design, and the design got captured as a hidden part
> of the documentation, but the commands themselves never got implemented.
> Most of the time, it's mostly a matter of writing the code... They
> usually get implemented when someone really needing the functionality
> just goes ahead and implements it.
>
Excellent, that's what I like to hear.
It was just sufficiently odd to see documentation *before* code that I thought I should ask.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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