From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4778 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2003 17:53:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4771 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2003 17:53:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nick.uklinux.net) (194.247.49.202) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2003 17:53:35 -0000 Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6E23176037; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:49:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15995.20665.215224.490948@nick.uklinux.net> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:53:00 -0000 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Nick Roberts , gdb@sources.redhat.com, bob_rossi@cox.net Subject: Re: [rfc] Annotation level THREE In-Reply-To: <3E774292.8070603@redhat.com> References: <3E6E7326.3020906@redhat.com> <15985.7336.23998.590592@nick.uklinux.net> <3E751565.4030409@redhat.com> <15990.10811.61395.996906@nick.uklinux.net> <3E763228.9060104@redhat.com> <15990.62618.114706.459904@nick.uklinux.net> <3E774292.8070603@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 > > Perhaps I could turn that question round. Which annotations are you planning > > to keep? > > I think annotations can be split into two categores: > > - events > These let GDB notify the GUI of internal state changes. > > - markups > These try to make CLI output, intended solely for a human, machine parsable. > > The events remain (target changed, breakpoint created, ....). The > markups are removed (*-{begin,end}) I would like to try this approach. Firstly for pragmatic reasons: this is what is being offered. Secondly, it will give me a chance to experiment with things like variable objects. I have just one question: How long do you expect level 3 annotations would remain in GDB? Nick