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Re: Stepping off breakpoints in non-stop debugging mode (resubmit)
A Friday 11 April 2008 15:31:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks, the documentation patch is okay with me, but please enclose
> the first instance of "displaced stepping" in @dfn{}, as we do with
> new terms we introduce.
I've added it like so, hope that's what you mean:
+@kindex maint set can-use-displaced-stepping
+@kindex maint show can-use-displaced-stepping
+@cindex displaced stepping support
+@item maint set can-use-displaced-stepping
+@itemx maint show can-use-displaced-stepping
+Control whether or not @value{GDBN} will do displaced stepping if the
+target supports it. The default is on. @dfn{Displaced stepping} is a
+way to single-step over breakpoints without removing them from the
+inferior, by executing an out-of-line copy of the instruction that was
+originally at the breakpoint location. It is also known as
+out-of-line single-stepping.
+
It's the first time I'm looking at @dfn{], so I looked here
for guidelines:
http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/cgi-bin/info2www?(texinfo)dfn
Thanks,
--
Pedro Alves