Re: [rfc] Annotation level THREE

Andrew Cagney
2003-03-18T16:00:24Z

>> > > The above list also contains thing like field-{begin,end},
> > > > array-section-{begin,end} et.al. Why are they needed.
> > >
> > > I use them to parse the output. They could probably go, if necessary, but
> > > others that you plan to take out *are* needed.
> >
> > Can you please be more specific?
>
> Perhaps I could turn that question round. Which annotations are you planning
> to keep?

I think annotations can be split into two categores:

- events
These let GDB notify the GUI of internal state changes.

- markups
These try to make CLI output, intended solely for a human, machine parsable.

The events remain (target changed, breakpoint created, ....). The
markups are removed (*-{begin,end})

Andrew