From: Roland Pesch Date: Mon, 31 Dec 1990 16:22:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Minor adjustments and corrections. X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26376b06b8519e75d53b3058bbf86753a311977b;p=binutils-gdb.git Minor adjustments and corrections. --- diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index fdd7bf6a3eb..c1d46e660a9 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ \input texinfo @setfilename gdb.info -@settitle GDB, The GNU Debugger @synindex ky cp @ifinfo This file documents the GNU debugger GDB. @@ -33,23 +32,27 @@ original English. @end ifinfo @setchapternewpage odd -@settitle GDB Manual +@settitle Using GDB (v4.0) @titlepage -@sp 6 -@center @titlefont{GDB} +@title{Using GDB} +@subtitle{A Guide to the GNU Source-Level Debugger} @sp 1 -@center The GNU Source-Level Debugger -@sp 4 -@center Third Edition, GDB version 4.0 -@sp 1 -@center December 1990 -@sp 5 -@center Richard M. Stallman -@center (Revised by Cygnus Support) +@subtitle Third Edition---GDB version 4.0 +@subtitle December 1990 +@author{Richard M. Stallman} +@author{(Revised by Cygnus Support)} @page -@hfill Cygnus Support -@par@hskip -@parfillskip@hfill $Revision$ -@par@hskip -@parfillskip@hfill @TeX{}info @texinfoversion + +@tex +\def\$#1${{#1}} % Kluge: collect RCS revision info without $...$ +\xdef\manvers{\$Revision$} % For use in headers, footers too +{\parskip=0pt +\hfill Cygnus Support\par +\hfill \manvers\par +\hfill \TeX{}info \texinfoversion\par +} +@end tex + @vskip 0pt plus 1filll Copyright @copyright{} 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -1703,10 +1706,12 @@ Delete any breakpoints set at entry to the function @var{function}. Delete any breakpoints set at or within the code of the specified line. @item delete breakpoints @var{bnums}@dots{} -@kindex delete breakpoints @itemx delete @var{bnums}@dots{} +@itemx delete +@kindex delete breakpoints @kindex delete -Delete the breakpoints of the numbers specified as arguments. +Delete the breakpoints of the numbers specified as arguments. If no +argument is specified, delete all breakpoints. @end table @node Disabling, Conditions, Delete Breaks, Breakpoints @@ -1720,9 +1725,9 @@ remembers the information on the breakpoint so that you can @dfn{enable} it again later. You disable and enable breakpoints with the @samp{enable} and -@samp{disable} commands, specifying one or more breakpoint numbers as -arguments. Use @samp{info break} to print a list of breakpoints if you -don't know which breakpoint numbers to use. +@samp{disable} commands, optionally specifying one or more breakpoint +numbers as arguments. Use @samp{info break} to print a list of +breakpoints if you don't know which breakpoint numbers to use. A breakpoint can have any of four different states of enablement: @@ -1746,19 +1751,22 @@ You can use the following commands to enable or disable a breakpoint: @table @code @item disable breakpoints @var{bnums}@dots{} @itemx disable @var{bnums}@dots{} +@itemx disable @kindex disable breakpoints @kindex disable -Disable the specified breakpoints. A disabled breakpoint has no -effect but is not forgotten. All options such as ignore-counts, -conditions and commands are remembered in case the breakpoint is -enabled again later. +Disable the specified breakpoints---or all breakpoints, if none are +listed. A disabled breakpoint has no effect but is not forgotten. All +options such as ignore-counts, conditions and commands are remembered in +case the breakpoint is enabled again later. @item enable breakpoints @var{bnums}@dots{} @itemx enable @var{bnums}@dots{} +@itemx enable @kindex enable breakpoints @kindex enable -Enable the specified breakpoints. They become effective once again in -stopping the program, until you specify otherwise. +Enable the specified breakpoints (or all defined breakpoints). They +become effective once again in stopping the program, until you specify +otherwise. @item enable breakpoints once @var{bnums}@dots{} @itemx enable once @var{bnums}@dots{} @@ -2733,6 +2741,7 @@ the C++ name resolution operator in GDB expressions. @section Artificial Arrays @cindex artificial array +@kindex @@ It is often useful to print out several successive objects of the same type in memory; a section of an array, or an array of dynamically determined size for which only a pointer exists in the @@ -3976,6 +3985,9 @@ usual, but you probably will have no reason to use them. In the GDB I/O buffer, you can use these special Emacs commands: @table @kbd +@item C-h m +Describe the features of Emacs' GDB Mode. + @item M-s Execute to another source line, like the GDB @samp{step} command. @@ -4224,25 +4236,15 @@ Without this, we won't know whether there is any point in looking for the bug in the current version of GDB. @item +A complete input script, and all necessary source files, that will +reproduce the bug. -A complete input file, and all necessary source files, that will -reproduce the bug. Run your source files through the C -preprocessor by doing @samp{gcc -E @var{sourcefile} > @var{outfile}}, -then include the contents of @var{outfile} in the bug report. (Any -@samp{-I}, @samp{-D} or @samp{-U} options that you used in actual -compilation should also be used when doing this.) - -A single statement is not enough of an example. In order to compile -it, it must be embedded in a function definition; and the bug might -depend on the details of how this is done. - -Without a real example we can compile, all we can do about your bug -report is wish you luck. It would be futile to try to guess how to -provoke the bug. +@item +What compiler (and its version) was used to compile GDB---e.g. +``GCC-1.37.1''. @item -What compiler (and its version) was used to compile your program---e.g. -``GCC-1.37.1''. +What compiler (and its version) was used to compile GDB. @item The command arguments you gave the compiler to compile that example and @@ -4330,8 +4332,10 @@ Such guesses are usually wrong. Even we can't guess right about such things without first using the debugger to find the facts. @end itemize +@iftex @include readline/inc-readline.texinfo @include readline/inc-history.texinfo +@end iftex @node Installing GDB, , ,Top @appendix Installing GDB