* gdb.texinfo (Selection, Frame Info): Update information about

	arbitrary frame specficiations.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 72b50d976973ec4a20c3b76e414c5d63f1dfada9..cd59d45e0ddf0c10dbf6b9cd194da7f1134995ac 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Jan 27 16:53:56 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+       * gdb.texinfo (Selection, Frame Info): Update information about
+       arbitrary frame specficiations.
+
 Wed Jan 26 15:31:57 1994  Roland H. Pesch  (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
 
        * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: general editing pass prior to Net release

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index d3e946b27cab574e8f4e66f9e22ca2377b1cafbe..a1f9217b6a1fae696d6753ed67c8a8a50c1886b1 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -3293,14 +3293,19 @@ impossible for @value{GDBN} to assign numbers properly to all frames.  In
 addition, this can be useful when your program has multiple stacks and
 switches between them.
 
-@ifset SPARC
+@ifclear H8EXCLUSIVE
 On the SPARC architecture, @code{frame} needs two addresses to
 select an arbitrary frame: a frame pointer and a stack pointer.
+
+On the MIPS and Alpha architecture, it needs two addresses: a stack
+pointer and a program counter.
+
+On the 29k architecture, it needs three addresses: a register stack
+pointer, a program counter, and a memory stack pointer.
 @c note to future updaters: this is conditioned on a flag
-@c FRAME_SPECIFICATION_DYADIC in the tm-*.h files, currently only used
-@c by SPARC, hence the specific attribution.  Generalize or list all
-@c possibilities if more supported machines start doing this.
-@end ifset
+@c SETUP_ARBITRARY_FRAME in the tm-*.h files.  The above is up to date
+@c as of 27 Jan 1994.
+@end ifclear
 
 @item up @var{n}
 @kindex up
@@ -3381,9 +3386,11 @@ the usual conventions.
 
 @item info frame @var{addr}
 @itemx info f @var{addr}
-Print a verbose description of the frame at address @var{addr},
-without selecting that frame.  The selected frame remains unchanged by
-this command.
+Print a verbose description of the frame at address @var{addr}, without
+selecting that frame.  The selected frame remains unchanged by this
+command.  This requires the same kind of address (more than one for some
+architectures) that you specify in the @code{frame} command.
+@xref{Selection, ,Selecting a frame}.
 
 @item info args
 @kindex info args