From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14867 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2006 07:13:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 14859 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jan 2006 07:13:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:13:27 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p211-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.211]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B301C740191; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:13:24 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id D26BC8884; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:12:33 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17368.30305.371532.225465@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:13:00 -0000 To: Bob Rossi Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add fullname field for MI -break-info command Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00422.txt.bz2 > > For a future: can you explain what "annotate_field" does? The annotate.h > > file has no comments at all, and gdbint has "annotate_field" only inside > > code examples. And generally, what are "annotations"? > Annotations were the old interface used between GDB and front ends. It > was all that was available before MI. For your own sanity, never ever > try to deal with them. Just to clarify: Annotations will be replaced by MI but there are currently still front ends that use them. So don't add new annotations but please be careful not to change existing behaviour either. Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob