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Re: [rfa] Delete remaining obsolete files


> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:26:07 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> Of special interest is the shuffling of the Remote and Remote
> Debugging sections in the manual.  I discovered that some places
> referred to a small summary of remote debugging in the Targets
> chapter, and other places referred to the beefier Remote Debugging
> chapter.  Conveniently that chapter needed an introduction, so I moved
> the introduction from the section to the start of the chapter.

The changes in the manual are okay with me, but:

> -Once you've connected to the remote target, @value{GDBN} allows you to
> -send arbitrary commands to the remote monitor:
> -
> -@table @code
> -@item remote @var{command}
> -@kindex remote@r{, a command}
> -@cindex send command to remote monitor
> -Send an arbitrary @var{command} string to the remote monitor.
> -@end table

Why was this part removed?

> -@item set remotedevice @var{device}
> -@cindex serial port name
> -Set the name of the serial port through which to communicate to the
> -remote target to @var{device}.  This is the device used by
> -@value{GDBN} to open the serial communications line to the remote
> -target.  There's no default, so you must set a valid port name for the
> -remote serial communications to work.  (Some varieties of the
> -@code{target} command accept the port name as part of their
> -arguments.)
> -
> -@item show remotedevice
> -Show the current name of the serial port.

Same here.

> Index: NEWS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
> retrieving revision 1.220
> diff -u -p -r1.220 NEWS

This is fine, thanks.


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