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Re: [RFA/commit+doco] GDB/MI: Document support for -exec-run --start in -list-features


> > gdb/ChangeLog:
> > 
> >         * mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_list_features): add "exec-run-start-option".
> >         * NEWS: Expand the entry documenting the new -exec-run --start
> >         option to mention the corresponding new entry in the output of
> >         "-list-features".
> > 
> > gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> > 
> > 	* gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Miscellaneous Commands): Document the new
> > 	"exec-run-start-option" entry in the output of the "-list-features"
> > 	command.
> > 
> > gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> > 
> >         * gdb.mi/mi-start.exp: Add test verifying that -list-features
> >         contains "exec-run-start-option".
> > 
> > Tested on x86_64-linux. Both code and doco parts are relatively
> > straightforward, so I am planning on checking this in in a day or
> > two, assuming doco approval.
> 
> You have my approval, with one comment: each one of the items in that
> @table in gdb.texinfo should be indexed, to facilitate their
> discoverability by readers.  E.g., for this item I'd suggest
> 
>  @findex exec-run-start-option
>  @cindex support for @option{--start} option in @code{-exec-run}
> 
> I'd also add an index entry for the entire section
> 
>  @cindex supported @sc{gdb/mi} features, list
> 
> >From the past couple of weeks, it sounds like this section will grow
> very fast (so maybe it should become a full-fledged @node).

Thanks, Eli. I will prepare a followup patch as soon as this one
gets in. I don't see the section growing very fast, now that we have
-info-gdb-mi-commands, so it would be mostly for new switches. But
I do agree with all suggestions overall.

-- 
Joel


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