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Re: [RFA/doco] Document the XML format used for AIX shared lib support.


> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Date: Tue,  7 May 2013 14:13:26 +0400
> 
> Noticed by Pedro - new formats should all be documented. This adds
> documentation for the XML format used to transfer the shared library
> info between the native side to the target-only side.  I've placed
> that information in gdbint, since this is currently purely internal,
> and therefore of little interest to the average user ready the GDB
> Manual.

Thanks.

> +by reading the ".ldinfo" section when debugging from a core file.

It will be better to use @samp{.ldinfo} here.  It will typeset
prettier.

> +In both cases, the data has the same format, provided by @file{<sys/ldr.h>}.

Please drop the <..> brackets here, they are not needed.  OTOH, I
would say "provided by the @file{sys/ldr.h} system header file"
explicitly.

> +@code{text_addr}, the address where the .text section was mapped in memory.

@code{.text}

> +@code{text_size}, the size of the .text section.

Likewise.

> +@code{data_addr}, the address where the .data section was mapped in memory.

@code{.data}

> +@code{data_size}, the size of the .data section.

Likewise.

OK with those changes.


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