From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB 6
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 20:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EBC0DD7.70805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030509180511.GA12861@white>
> 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.
It won't have been deleted (but it would continue to be on notice).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 20:21 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
2003-05-09 20:21 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
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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