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On Wed 06 Aug 2014 20:05:20 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 06:24:35 -0700 > > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> > > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Masaki Muranaka > > <monaka@monami-software.com> > > > > For GDB's info page, I think we should indeed apply the transformation, > > to be consistent. > > I'm not sure I agree. What other projects do that? I never saw any > transformed Info manual. And we never did that before, so why now? > > Besides, why do that? The Info manual does not include any > system-specific information, it is valid for all supported systems. > So I see no reason to put it into a system-dependent place or call it > by system-dependent name. it's not system-dependent, but it is version dependent. reading the documentation for the native version can be wildly inaccurate than the documentation for the cross version. it's probably less of an issue for gdb as features/flags don't change wildly quickly, but it makes a huge difference for gcc (e.g. 4.7 to 4.8 to 4.9). -mike
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