Bug in handle, or in its documentation?

[Reuben Thomas]

I'm using gdb gdb-5.3.90-0.20030710 as shipped with Fedora Core 1. In the
manual (which is marked as "Ninth Edition for GDB Version Red Hat Linux
(5.3.90-0.20030710.41rh)"), it says under "Signals":


`handle SIGNAL KEYWORDS...'
     Change the way GDB handles signal SIGNAL.  SIGNAL can be the
     number of a signal or its name (with or without the `SIG' at the
     beginning); ...

If I type

  handle ALRM pass

I get the error:

  Unrecognized or ambiguous flag word: "ALRM".

The same thing happens if I replace ALRM with INT. If I type

  handle SIGALRM pass

then it works. Unless I'm being stupid, this is either a bug in the
program or the documentation: either you need to delete the parenthesis
above, or you need to make handle work without the initial "SIG" on its
first argument. Assuming that this hasn't already been sorted out (I
skimmed through the dauntingly long changelogs and couldn't find
anything).

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