From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5717 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2012 22:07:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 5709 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Apr 2012 22:07:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:07:03 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1SI5gr-0003mu-VI from Carlos_ODonell@mentor.com ; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:07:01 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:07:01 -0700 Received: from [172.30.12.197] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:07:00 -0700 Message-ID: <4F860084.4030103@mentor.com> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:07:00 -0000 From: Carlos O'Donell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: Subject: Re: Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo. References: <4F85F7F1.1070304@mentor.com> <20120411214822.GN25623@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20120411214822.GN25623@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 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. -- Carlos O'Donell Mentor Graphics / CodeSourcery carlos_odonell@mentor.com carlos@codesourcery.com +1 (613) 963 1026