Re: GDB 6

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

>> > 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).
> 
> 
> Will GDB 6 have annotation level three? The patch that you posted (2003-03-11)
> doesn't appear to have been applied yet.

That's correct.  I've got a small matter of the doco and testsuite to 
resolve :-)

> I might have lost the plot a bit. I initially checked out interps-20030202-branch
> but, after some difficulty, I moved to HEAD and found that things like 
> 
> -interpreter-exec console cli-command
> 
>  and 
> 
> interpreter mi -<mi-command> <mi-args>
> 
> were present there also. Am I in the right place?

Yes.

> In the past you have suggested that (in the fullness of time)
> 
> 
>> The events [annotations] remain (target changed, breakpoint created, ....). 
>> The markups are removed (*-{begin,end})

There was some progress.  Joel added a proper observer.  Next is for the 
breakpoint stuff to use that.

> I've got my head round variable objects and think that they might map on to
> alists and the Emacs speedbar quite well. This means I can avoid the
> annotations that mark up displayed expressions. However, the proposed patch
> also removed some event annotations e.g source, query. I would like these to
> stay. 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? ...).

Andrew