From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2688 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2002 16:18:20 -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 2605 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2002 16:18:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zwingli.cygnus.com) (208.245.165.35) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 2002 16:18:18 -0000 Received: by zwingli.cygnus.com (Postfix, from userid 442) id B90455E9DE; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:19:50 -0500 (EST) To: Fernando Nasser Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , drow@mvista.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Allow __libc_start_main above main in annota1.exp References: <200201301602.g0UG2Ro27845@duracef.shout.net> <3C58212C.5BB1291F@redhat.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:18:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3C58212C.5BB1291F@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00268.txt.bz2 Fernando Nasser writes: > Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > > > > BTW, the annotation interface is deprecated (see the NEWS file > > in gdb 5.1.1). I'm in favor of maintaining test scripts for > > deprecated features for a while, but I don't feel an urge to > > solve the "giant annotation line" problem. > > > > Andrew or anyone, can you say how long the annotation interface > > is going to stay around? > > > > I believe as long as emacs uses it. M-x gdb doesn't use it. There's no way to know whether anyone's using the other interface; it could just lie around for years. I think we should #ifdef out support for the annotation interface, and see if anyone complains.