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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2000-11-19 06:31:39 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2000-11-19 06:31:39 +0000
commitb24857474f23efd3e007812d9089e19a0736b199 (patch)
tree3a750ba1c216e525995f4be0eed1edb68f7baf95
parent8a5b48e734269d3d5d7c86f3bb72310d5a64e09f (diff)
downloadgdb-b24857474f23efd3e007812d9089e19a0736b199.tar.gz
* gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): Fixed markup and typos,
as suggested by Dmitry Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU>.
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo24
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 65b12499b8c..7c64f05b203 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-11-19 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): Fixed markup and typos,
+ as suggested by Dmitry Sivachenko <dima@Chg.RU>.
+
2000-11-10 Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
* gdb.texinfo: Document new 'set step-mode' command.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 4a09118050f..aa925657e1a 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -3281,12 +3281,12 @@ without debugging information, use the @code{stepi} command, described
below.
@end quotation
-The @code{step} command only stops at the first instruction of a
-source line. This prevents the multiple stops that could otherwise occur in
-switch statements, for loops, etc. @code{step} continues to stop if a
-function that has debugging information is called within the line.
-In other words, @code{step} @emph{steps inside} any functions called
-within the line.
+The @code{step} command only stops at the first instruction of a source
+line. This prevents the multiple stops that could otherwise occur in
+@code{switch} statements, @code{for} loops, etc. @code{step} continues
+to stop if a function that has debugging information is called within
+the line. In other words, @code{step} @emph{steps inside} any functions
+called within the line.
Also, the @code{step} command only enters a function if there is line
number information for the function. Otherwise it acts like the
@@ -3321,23 +3321,23 @@ An argument @var{count} is a repeat count, as for @code{step}.
The @code{next} command only stops at the first instruction of a
source line. This prevents multiple stops that could otherwise occur in
-switch statements, for loops, etc.
+@code{switch} statements, @code{for} loops, etc.
@kindex set step-mode
@item set step-mode
@cindex functions without line info, and stepping
@cindex stepping into functions with no line info
@itemx set step-mode on
-The @code{set step-mode on} command causes the @code{step} command to to
+The @code{set step-mode on} command causes the @code{step} command to
stop at the first instruction of a function which contains no debug line
information rather than stepping over it.
-This is useful in cases where you may be interested in inspecting the assembly
-language of a function which has no symbolic info and do not want @value{GDBN}
-to automatically skip over this function.
+This is useful in cases where you may be interested in inspecting the
+machine instructions of a function which has no symbolic info and do not
+want @value{GDBN} to automatically skip over this function.
@item set step-mode off
-Causes the step command to step over any functions which contains no
+Causes the @code{step} command to step over any functions which contains no
debug information. This is the default.
@kindex finish