Subject: bug#24125: closed (Re: bug#24125: 25.1.50; Docstring of gud-gdb)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 20:06:02 +0000

Your bug report

#24125: 25.1.50; Docstring of gud-gdb

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#24125: 25.1.50; Docstring of gud-gdb
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:04:54 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:31:06 +0200
> 
> The docstring of gud-gdb says:
> 
> (gud-gdb COMMAND-LINE)
> 
> Run gdb on program FILE in buffer *gud-FILE*.
> The directory containing FILE becomes the initial working
> directory and source-file directory for your debugger.
> 
> /end quote
> 
> There is no FILE in the argument list of the function, so this is
> confusing, moreover when gdb can be invoked without a program name (when
> attaching to a running process, for example.) It is not clear from the
> docstring if this case is supported.

Thanks fixed on the emacs-25 branch.

Subject: 25.1.50; Docstring of gud-gdb
From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:31:06 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The docstring of gud-gdb says:

(gud-gdb COMMAND-LINE)

Run gdb on program FILE in buffer *gud-FILE*.
The directory containing FILE becomes the initial working
directory and source-file directory for your debugger.

/end quote

There is no FILE in the argument list of the function, so this is
confusing, moreover when gdb can be invoked without a program name (when
attaching to a running process, for example.) It is not clear from the
docstring if this case is supported.

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