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authorMichael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>2008-10-04 19:11:51 +0000
committerMichael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>2008-10-04 19:11:51 +0000
commitf43ac6ad515340b4073e4fe2b91178a6a9cb0cdb (patch)
tree7a94885a5ec4d3097bb45bd818ef2e15afda81d8
parent9ac06bfd4efe756dc247ff60b236d17df53b31fd (diff)
downloadgdb-f43ac6ad515340b4073e4fe2b91178a6a9cb0cdb.tar.gz
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index b38653de3c5..15fbc3930dc 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -4876,9 +4876,9 @@ The contract between @value{GDBN} and the reverse executing target
requires only that the target do something reasonable when
@value{GDBN} tells it to execute backwards, and then report the
results back to @value{GDBN}. Whatever the target reports back to
-@value{GDBN}, @value{GDBN} will report back to the user. We assume
-that the memory and registers that the target reports to us are in a
-consistant state, but we accept whatever we are given.
+@value{GDBN}, @value{GDBN} will report back to the user. @value{GDBN}
+assumes that the memory and registers that the target reports are in a
+consistant state, but @value{GDBN} accepts whatever it is given.
}.
If you are debugging in a target environment that supports
@@ -4926,7 +4926,10 @@ Run backward to the beginning of the previous line executed in
the current (innermost) stack frame. If the line contains function
calls, they will be ``un-executed'' without stopping. Starting from
the first line of a function, @code{reverse-next} will take you back
-to the caller of that function, @emph{before} the function was called.
+to the caller of that function, @emph{before} the function was called,
+just as the normal @code{next} command would take you from the last
+line of a function back to its return to its caller
+@footnote{Unles the code is too heavily optimized.}.
@kindex reverse-nexti
@kindex rni @r{(@code{reverse-nexti})}