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Re: Conditionals in GDB manual


  In message <199902050402.UAA16377@cygint.cygnus.com>you write:
  > I've been working over the GDB manual, and am looking at all the
  > conditionals in it; AMD29K, SPARCLET, VXWORKS, DOSHOST, POSIX, etc.
  > There are about 40 of them, and as far as I can tell, many of them
  > have never been used to make a subset manual.  The exceptions are a
  > Hitachi H8-specific manual done in 1993, and more recently an HP-UX
  > specific manual, although many of the HPPA conditionals should appear
  > in the generic manual also.
  > 
  > So I'm considering whacking most or all of the conditionals.  This
  > won't matter to most people, because the default build/configure
  > enables almost all of these conditionals.  However, if anybody has a
  > good use for a particular conditional, you'll know what it is and can
  > tell me, so that I preserve it.  (I'm already discussing the HPPA bits
  > with Roz de la Torre at HP.)
Might it make more sense to have processor specific appendices?  We need
somewhere to put processor/os specific stuff.

Just a thought.  

jeff