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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
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})} |