From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org (eggs.gnu.org [IPv6:2001:470:142:3::10]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23FA43858D28 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2023 16:21:19 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 23FA43858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gnu.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gnu.org ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v1.0.0 sourceware.org 23FA43858D28 Authentication-Results: server2.sourceware.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=2001:470:142:3::10 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1701706880; cv=none; b=BeOC7r3lRuSLkuVYVyLIk+IQ9fGMEPVOjIkJkq3lMwzUxacy0I2TTG5uiYUJhPXpZ8c2nDtrItlstRZ5l/pTsNao67H1mpM2DKJ+aOLcRsWvd9NUzkV1NCsH5dG4AdjBSUnFZR2FfqQcDzVLuFtq9Po9VzOPpSjH/gY6q997SIU= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1701706880; c=relaxed/simple; bh=MdO9ms5fE2giWOn1hRm+JmGVSZf4fa0Dn3XKAqND37Y=; h=DKIM-Signature:Date:Message-Id:From:To:Subject; b=gfRG7G7/jv8cbXs3+06XoDEJjHSvTBMkic/TvEhInLi37MCwBuiClEH+hhOM175Ah16O00atBEsfpL+g23YOcgVeEn7JaK7yPz3+dHO3g55i5BWyyPM3q7DIibw9zUZRaz7zTu/G2P5jU/XRciX+Ar63oKtMvstTyjX/19J7Mdc= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; server2.sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rABh8-0002lC-FZ; Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:21:18 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=rw03/g9upCHv0D1TL9TMEjg5Ssx4Nson5rzQPIMprrg=; b=b9fgJjkEnsQL SzgM5M/7ZqPkZWQAI+ahhVOyIy+ic9pV3uTcublHTp+vnsCG9cjGOkbS/3i/HxF/OUJrZAFogl6Lc WV0bMSrqkgvXIc4HbZEvSGHwUHMvGfqSGWGuXEj16qDP5nvdgvJuHIsYn2IYMDbD9x+YTGZFhXKfh NnjbaLxVid6aoTofsBfSyYPXxcOhB6oxMvSsV3TnKKTV5S1TwcBzIubUPMJqIaahH8KUXXxxhEJ5N wCnq88lFx8eyoXw4hNBwyJUm9xRcq10Az9Deio7pehZcFPVLP2mGQYSyeyMCjmAH0AYKhlW5cVeba /P1fcCXq7X4eZpA5nhSCtQ==; Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:21:22 +0200 Message-Id: <83o7f65471.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andrew Burgess Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <87il5egdut.fsf@redhat.com> (message from Andrew Burgess on Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:57:14 +0000) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gdbserver: allow the --debug command line option to take a value References: <83v8ad1hcv.fsf@gnu.org> <87bkbbnldv.fsf@redhat.com> <83h6l3avzv.fsf@gnu.org> <87il5egdut.fsf@redhat.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: > From: Andrew Burgess > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:57:14 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> > Why do we need this duplicate description? I'd prefer to have a short > >> > sentence with a cross-reference to the previous description, so that > >> > we could have only one of them, not two. > >> > >> This is unfortunate. One of these instances is the general gdb info > >> manual, while the second of these is the gdbserver man page. > > > > The above is from the manual, and in Texinfo, not from the man page. > > How is the man page relevant? > > The man page is generated from gdb.texinfo using this magic in > gdb/doc/Makefile.in: And we must have two identical passages in the manual to do that? We cannot generate these man pages using a single copy of the text we are talking about?