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Re: Stepping off breakpoints in non-stop debugging mode (resubmit)
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:46:54 +0100
>
> A Friday 11 April 2008 15:31:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Thanks, the documentation patch is okay with me, but please enclose
> > the first instance of "displaced stepping" in @dfn{}, as we do with
> > new terms we introduce.
>
> I've added it like so, hope that's what you mean:
>
> +@kindex maint set can-use-displaced-stepping
> +@kindex maint show can-use-displaced-stepping
> +@cindex displaced stepping support
> +@item maint set can-use-displaced-stepping
> +@itemx maint show can-use-displaced-stepping
> +Control whether or not @value{GDBN} will do displaced stepping if the
> +target supports it. The default is on. @dfn{Displaced stepping} is a
> +way to single-step over breakpoints without removing them from the
> +inferior, by executing an out-of-line copy of the instruction that was
> +originally at the breakpoint location. It is also known as
> +out-of-line single-stepping.
That's okay, thanks.