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authorMichael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>2008-10-06 22:57:54 +0000
committerMichael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>2008-10-06 22:57:54 +0000
commit7d0c8cad1853e59fe2966e2748e6847d0b76805c (patch)
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parent8788271f011e64124ecb66c8f4b8da726da189fc (diff)
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Add tweaks from review comments
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 8786b4aeac7..b7808bff1cd 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-09-30 Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo: Add documentation for reverse execution.
+ Add tweaks from review comments.
+
2008-07-10 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
* doc/gdb.texinfo: Document "set print symbol-loading on|off".
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index e362b31e194..de1a447ca24 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -4656,7 +4656,10 @@ 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})}