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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 97 11:43:23 +0100
From:      garyj@frt.dec.com
To:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb Makefile nm.h 
Message-ID:  <9703131043.AA28206@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>  of Thu, 13 Mar 97  17:07:23 %2B1100.

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bde@zeta.org.au writes:
> >  Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb  Makefile nm.h
> >  Log:
> >  add LINKS line to Makefile to automatically produce a link to kgdb
> >  
> >  define START_PROGRESS in nm.h to check whether gdb was invoked as kgdb
> >  and set the kernel_debugging flag in that case.
> >  
> >  2.2 candidate ?
> 
> Backwards step.
> 
> 	$ man kgdb
> 	No manual entry for kgdb
> 	$ apropos kgdb
> 	kgdb: nothing appropriate
> 	$ info kgdb
> 	...
> 	There is no menu item "kgdb" in this node.
> 	$ info -f kgdb
> 	info: kgdb: File name too long
> 	            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ stale errno bug in info?
> 
> It's more important to support one interface properly.  The -k and -w flags
> are not documented in either gdb.1 or gdb.texi.
> 

I agree with Bruce on this, although I'm more inclined to call it
"an undocumented forward step" :)

I'll fix the documentation to reflect reality.

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