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Re: Fix "maint time" command documentation.


> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:20:49 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Anmol P. Paralkar" <anmol@freescale.com>
> 
>   The documentation for the "maint time" command does not mention the units of time.
>   Also, there are a couple of typos in there. I have attempted to fix these in the
>   following patch; please let me know if we could word/punctuate this better and
>   I'll be happy to re-spin.

Thanks.  I have a few suggestions for a better change:

>    Control whether to display the execution time for each command.  If
>    set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time it
> ! took (in seconds) to execute each command, following the command's own output.

It would be better to place the units right after "time":

    Control whether to display the execution time for each command.
    If set to a nonzero value, @value{GDBN} will display how much time
    (in seconds) it took to execute each command, following the
    command's own output.

> ! The time is not printed for the commands that run on the target, since
>    there's no mechanism currently to compute how much time was spend
                                                                 ^^^^^
"spent"

> ! by @value{GDBN} and how much time was spend by the program been debugged;
                                          ^^^^^                ^^^^
"spent" and "being"

> ! this is not possible currently.

I think this part is not needed.  The sentence already says that
"there's no mechanism currently" to do this, so this addition simply
reiterates the same thing.

Thanks.


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