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From: jtc@redbacknetworks.com (J.T. Conklin) Date: 05 Feb 1999 12:15:50 -0800 Ideally, there would be One True GDB Manual that contained all information for all hosts and targets, organized in such a way so environment specific information could be identified and located easily by readers. Appendicies for both host and target specific information might be a good way to accomplish this. Yes. The effect of the conditionals is to allow people to make 2^40 different One of Many GDB Manuals, each with no indication to the reader that they are different from the complete manual. The many conditionals that select parts of the "Remote Debugging" chapter seem to go along with this idea, although the individual sections don't share the same outline of sub-sections and moving them to an appendix might be a bit more of an overhaul than is envisioned. There's no reason not to reorganize the manual in whatever way makes it the most accessible to readers. I note that most of GCC's target specific info sits in the chapter on command-line options, and everybody seems to be OK with that. For GDB, I'm leaning towards a regular chapter or two, mostly because the info for some targets is fairly extensive and critical to using them, and appendices are better for small amounts of optional info. But I haven't made a decision yet. Stan