Re: What's an annex? stratum?

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > At the moment, GDB:
 > 
 > - can't print a C++ map<string, string> value in any reasonable form,
 >   or even a vector<int>, or carry out many other essential C++
 >   operations,
 > 
 > - can't debug multiple processes at the same time,
 > 
 > - is slow to start up on large programs, and uses a lot of memory,
 > 
 > - can't let other threads continue to run while one is stopped,
 > 
 > - can't be scripted in a reasonable language,
 > 
 > - or do many other things we all could think of.

This looks like another list that could be added to the wiki that Daniel has
created.

 > ...
 > I want to hear an internals documentation advocate say, "I'm going to
 > work on the internals documentation because I think the date at which
 > user-visible project X is complete will move closer when I do so."

I agree.  I also would like to see a self contained internals manual but I
think it's churlish to expect someone else to write it for me.  Emacs has
no such manual, at all.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob