From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F860084.4030103@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 21:30 Carlos O'Donell
2012-04-11 21:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-11 22:07 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2012-04-12 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-12 6:18 ` Carlos O'Donell
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