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Re: RFA: "maint print type" should print all the flag bits

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:20:06PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>> > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:40:48 -0800
>> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>> > 
>> > Perhaps there needs to be a developers manual?
> 
>> 
>> That's a possibility.  However, the number of maint commands is quite
>> small, and hardly warrants a separate manual.
>> 
>> How about having an Appendix where all maint commands would be
>> documented?
> 
> 
> We have an internals manual, don't we?  The maint commands are only
> useful if you're wandering around in the internals.  So why not say as
> much in the user manual, and document them in the internals manual?


I think the ``maint'' commands are like the ``remote protocol spec'' and 
the MI interface.  While not for the average user, they do define 
external user accessable interfaces to GDB.

enjoy,
Andrew
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