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Re: [RFA/doco] add obstacks to gdbint.texi
> From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:47:41 -0500
> >
> > I would put "obstack" either in @code or in @samp.
>
> all over or just that sentence?
All over, I think.
> > Finally, there are many places where there's only one blank after a
> > dot that ends a sentence. Please make that 2 spaces.
>
> Ok, is there something in .emacs that I should set to get this done when
> I do an 'esc-q' for instance?
It does that for me by default. If it doesn't for you, perhaps you
have sentence-end-double-space set to nil somehow.
> +An essential and convenient property of all data on obstacks is that
> +memory for it gets allocated (with obstack_alloc) at various times
> +during a debugging sesssion, but it is released all at once using the
> +obstack_free function. The obstack_free function takes a pointer to
> +where in the stack it must start the deletion from (much like the
> +cleanup chains have a pointer to where to start the cleanups).
obstack_free, obstack_alloc, etc. are functions, so they need @code.
Otherwise, fine; thanks.