From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update the 'g' packet documentation
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:58:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lem645yr.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533a8893-c0b2-ec5a-fa11-f83bf98f4429@palves.net> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:09:21 +0000")
>> -When reading registers from a trace frame (@pxref{Analyze Collected
>> -Data,,Using the Collected Data}), the stub may also return a string of
>> +When reading registers, the stub may also return a string of
>> literal @samp{x}'s in place of the register data digits, to indicate
>> that the corresponding register has not been collected, thus its value
>> is unavailable. For example, for an architecture with 4 registers of
>>
Pedro> Here, the new text still uses "collected", but lost the reference to trace frames.
Pedro> It seems to me that that will result in people not knowing what "collected"
Pedro> means in this context.
Yeah, I wanted to get rid of the trace frame note, because it's
confusing -- 'x' can be sent any time, not just a trace frame.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-13 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-11 18:37 Tom Tromey
2023-01-11 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-13 12:09 ` Pedro Alves
2023-01-13 18:58 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2023-01-27 15:25 ` [PATCH v2] " Pedro Alves
2023-01-27 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-30 21:15 ` Tom Tromey
2023-02-16 17:10 ` Pedro Alves
2023-02-16 18:16 ` Tom Tromey
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