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Re: [rfa] Delete remaining obsolete files
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:45:21 +0300
- Subject: Re: [rfa] Delete remaining obsolete files
- References: <20070410202607.GA1046@caradoc.them.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> 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.