From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 50952 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2018 16:50:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 50937 invoked by uid 89); 25 Mar 2018 16:50:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:910 X-HELO: gateway20.websitewelcome.com Received: from gateway20.websitewelcome.com (HELO gateway20.websitewelcome.com) (192.185.61.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:50:55 +0000 Received: from cm15.websitewelcome.com (cm15.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.9]) by gateway20.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E930E400D0F6C for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:50:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id 08r7f9oirntAo08r7fnepw; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:50:53 -0500 Received: from c-67-176-62-53.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.176.62.53]:55186 helo=bapiya) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89_1) (envelope-from ) id 1f08r7-004JcH-O7; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:50:53 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA v3 01/13] Rationalize "backtrace" command line parsing References: <20180323205512.14434-1-tom@tromey.com> <20180323205512.14434-2-tom@tromey.com> <83tvt6gf1j.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:50:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83tvt6gf1j.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:31:52 +0300") Message-ID: <87lgegaykz.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1f08r7-004JcH-O7 X-Source-Sender: c-67-176-62-53.hsd1.co.comcast.net (bapiya) [67.176.62.53]:55186 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 6 X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTM3OS5ibHVlaG9zdC5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00501.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: Eli> Is it wise to delete the @table? We always describe commands in that Eli> format, AFAIR. The patch actually just moves the table down a bit and removes some text from each entry. It isn't really deleted. For example: -@item backtrace @var{n} -@itemx bt @var{n} -Similar, but print only the innermost @var{n} frames. becomes +@table @code +@item @var{n} +@itemx @var{n} +Print only the innermost @var{n} frames, where @var{n} is a positive +number. What here would you like changed? >> +Print a backtrace of the entire stack, use the @code{backtrace} >> +command, or its alias @code{bt}. This command will print one line per Eli> I gues you meant "To print a backtrace of the entire stack ...", Eli> because otherwise the first sentence reads weirdly. I'll make this change. Tom