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authorRoland Pesch <pesch@cygnus>1992-05-06 04:49:50 +0000
committerRoland Pesch <pesch@cygnus>1992-05-06 04:49:50 +0000
commit38962738d672eab61ccc417e9091957e006ac9db (patch)
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formatting improvements (already in progressive)
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo22
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 1cf4974..96bf3b2 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ context where it stops.
Breakpoint 1, m4_changequote (argc=3, argv=0x33c70)
at builtin.c:879
-879 if (bad_argc(TOKEN_DATA_TEXT(argv[0]), argc, 1, 3))
+879 if (bad_argc(TOKEN_DATA_TEXT(argv[0]),argc,1,3))
@end smallexample
@noindent
@@ -3947,8 +3947,8 @@ Cause _GDBN__ to print structures in a compact format, like this:
@smallexample
@group
-$1 = @{next = 0x0, flags = @{sweet = 1, sour = 1@}, meat \
-= 0x54 "Pork"@}
+$1 = @{next = 0x0, flags = @{sweet = 1, sour = 1@}, \
+meat = 0x54 "Pork"@}
@end group
@end smallexample
@@ -5984,7 +5984,7 @@ the two-stage strategy for COFF yet.
@cindex symbols, reading immediately
@kindex mapped
@cindex memory-mapped symbol file
-@cindex saving symbol table with memory mapping
+@cindex saving symbol table
You can override the _GDBN__ two-stage strategy for reading symbol
tables by using the @samp{-readnow} option with any of the commands that
load symbol table information, if you want to be sure _GDBN__ has the
@@ -7656,10 +7656,10 @@ make
where @var{host} is an identifier such as @samp{sun4} or
@samp{decstation}, that identifies the platform where GDB will run.
-This sequence of @code{configure} and @code{make} builds the @file{bfd},
-@file{readline}, @file{mmalloc}, and @file{libiberty} libraries, then
-@code{gdb} itself. The configured source files, and the binaries, are
-left in the corresponding source directories.
+Running @samp{configure @var{host}} followed by @code{make} builds the
+@file{bfd}, @file{readline}, @file{mmalloc}, and @file{libiberty}
+libraries, then @code{gdb} itself. The configured source files, and the
+binaries, are left in the corresponding source directories.
@code{configure} is a Bourne-shell (@code{/bin/sh}) script; if your
system does not recognize this automatically when you run a different
@@ -7740,7 +7740,7 @@ the example, you'd find the Sun 4 library @file{libiberty.a} in the
directory @file{gdb-sun4/libiberty}, and GDB itself in
@file{gdb-sun4/gdb}.
-One popular use for building several GDB configurations in separate
+One popular reason to build several GDB configurations in separate
directories is to configure GDB for cross-compiling (where GDB
runs on one machine---the host---while debugging programs that run on
another machine---the target). You specify a cross-debugging target by
@@ -7777,12 +7777,14 @@ For example, you can use the alias @code{sun4} as a @var{host} argument
or in a @code{--target=@var{target}} option, but the equivalent full name
is @samp{sparc-sun-sunos4}.
+@c @group would be better, if it worked
+@page
The following table shows all the architectures, hosts, and OS
prefixes that @code{configure} recognizes in GDB version _GDB_VN__. Entries
in the ``OS prefix'' column ending in a @samp{*} may be followed by a
release number.
-@c FIXME! Update for gdb 4.4
+@c FIXME! Update for most recent gdb
@c TEXI2ROFF-KILL
@ifinfo
@c END TEXI2ROFF-KILL