From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29768 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2003 16:00:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29732 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 16:00:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2003 16:00:23 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECC72B11; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:00:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E774292.8070603@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:00:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Roberts Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bob_rossi@cox.net Subject: Re: [rfc] Annotation level THREE References: <3E6E7326.3020906@redhat.com> <15985.7336.23998.590592@nick.uklinux.net> <3E751565.4030409@redhat.com> <15990.10811.61395.996906@nick.uklinux.net> <3E763228.9060104@redhat.com> <15990.62618.114706.459904@nick.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00398.txt.bz2 >> > > 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