From: Jim Kingdon Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 13:28:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * remote.texi (MIPS Remote): Say that set timeout doesn't apply X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5940bfd96482abe9952bd4b7e142bb07ae36e5d7;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git * remote.texi (MIPS Remote): Say that set timeout doesn't apply when waiting for your program to stop. --- diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index cfdf35edcb..35c01ca9c7 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Wed May 4 06:26:11 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) + + * remote.texi (MIPS Remote): Say that set timeout doesn't apply + when waiting for your program to stop. + Fri Apr 29 18:24:46 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) * annotate.texi (Breakpoint Info): Document annotation of header diff --git a/gdb/doc/remote.texi b/gdb/doc/remote.texi index 12246ada46..422379dd89 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/remote.texi +++ b/gdb/doc/remote.texi @@ -1333,6 +1333,11 @@ retransmit-timeout @var{seconds}} command. The default is 3 seconds. You can inspect both values with @code{show timeout} and @code{show retransmit-timeout}. (These commands are @emph{only} available when @value{GDBN} is configured for @samp{--target=mips-idt-ecoff}.) + +The timeout set by @code{set timeout} does not apply when @value{GDBN} +is waiting for your program to stop. In that case, @value{GDBN} waits +forever because it has no way of knowing how long the program is going +to run before stopping. @end table @end ifset