Re: GDB 6

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 09:13:20PM +0100, Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
>  > > Here is a revised and reduced list of annotations that I think I could
>  > > work with:
>  > > 
>  > > frames-invalid
>  > > breakpoints-invalid
>  > > pre-prompt
>  > > prompt
>  > > commands
>  > > overload-choice
>  > > query
>  > > prompt-for-continue
>  > > post-prompt
>  > > source
>  > > starting
>  > > exited
>  > > signalled
>  > > signal
>  > > breakpoint
>  > > watchpoint
>  > > frame-begin
>  > > stopped
>  > 
>  > I'm not sure about frame begin.  Things like frames-invalid are events 
>  > and they can stay (forever? ...).
>  > 
> 
> I don't really need frame-begin. The problem that I have, however, is that
> frame-begin (and other annotations) are issued *before* stopped. This meant
> that sometimes Emacs thought that frame details output by Gdb were output by
> the inferior and so they were displayed in the IO buffer. I can only reproduce
> this problem now with tbreak where a typical annotation sequence (avoiding
> many repeats) looks like:
> 
> frames-invalid
> breakpoints-invalid
> starting                <--
> frames-invalid
> breakpoints-invalid
> frame-begin etc         <--
> source
> frame-end
> stopped                 <--
> 

Also, do you relize that breakpoint-invalid is buggy?
For many versions, gdb will not output breakpoints-invalid when you
delete the last breakpoint in the list.

so, 

b main
delete main

you will not get a breakpoints-invalid and emacs will still be
displaying a breakpoint.

Bob Rossi