GDB's man page source (in gdb.texinfo) contains:
@t{++}
The @t{...} part is supposed to display the wrapped text with a
fixed-width font. The texi2pod.pl script currently doesn't handle
@t{...}, so it appears as-is in the man page:
You can use GDB to debug programs written in C, C@t{++}, Fortran and Modula-2.
gcc's version of texi2pod.pl (at contrib/texi2pod.pl in gcc's repo)
replaces @t{...} with the wrapped text as-is, which I think is an
acceptable behavior. The fixed-width font distinction is not really
important for a man page, where the text will be displayed with whatever
font the user is using.
Import the line that does that from gcc's version.
I have verified that there is no other, unwanted change in man pages
generated in binutils' and GDB's doc, with this patch applied.
etc/ChangeLog:
* texi2pod.pl: Handle @t{...} tags.
This is a modified form of gcc's contrib/update-copyright.py.
* update-copyright.py: New file.
* add-log.el: Update copyright year range.
* texi2pod.pl: Likewise.
etc * texi2pod.pl: Escape curly braces, whilst searching for keyword
strong.
gas * config/tc-arm.c: For non-ELF based targets skip ARM feature sets
that are not supported.
* config/tc-arc.c (md_apply_fix): Avoid left shifting a signed
constant.
* config/tc-cr16.c (check_range): Likewise.
* config/tc-nios2.c (nios2_check_overflow): Likewise.
gas * doc/as.texinfo: Place the target specific command line options
into their own man page section.
etc * texi2pod.pl: Add TARGET to the list of recognised man page
sections.
Simon Marchi
Alan Modra
Nick Clifton
Eric Christopher
Daniel Jacobowitz
Mark Mitchell
Bob Wilson