From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB 6
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 18:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509180511.GA12861@white> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EBBDE20.6030007@redhat.com>
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:58:08PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> The sole objective for GDB 6 was to have GDB multi-arch. Since Joel has
> now committed a change that multi-arch partial's the HP/PA, and all
> architectures can be built multi-arch partial, it can be argued that GDB
> has technically reached this goal(1).
>
> Given this, I think the next release of GDB should be named ``GDB 6''.
>
> In doing this, there is an oportunity to, identify as obsolete (but not
> actually delete) a few extra bits.. The following come to mind:
>
> - non event loop platforms
> - DWARF (a.k.a., DWARF 1)
>
> People with systems that rely on said features can always download the
> GDB 5 series debuggers.
>
> With regard to annotations, someone [me] still still has the
> documentation and testsuite to update (....). That, I think is the only
> ``must have'' thing for the next GDB release.
What exactly do you mean here?
Annotations Level 2 will stay in gdb for version 6.0?
This would truly be a great thing.
Bob Rossi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 16:58 Andrew Cagney
2003-05-09 17:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-05-09 17:41 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-05-09 18:05 ` Bob Rossi [this message]
2003-05-09 20:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-09 18:17 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-05-09 20:25 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-10 22:35 Nick Roberts
2003-05-11 15:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-12 18:57 ` Nick Roberts
2003-05-11 22:00 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-05-12 19:29 ` Bob Rossi
2003-05-13 17:47 ` Nick Roberts
2003-05-12 19:36 ` Bob Rossi
2003-05-13 17:47 ` Nick Roberts
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