From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14107 invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2007 22:14:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 14098 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jun 2007 22:14:10 -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; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:14:07 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (249.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.249]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6CB3D9D62; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:14:03 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8608F8FBF6; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:13:54 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18049.36769.426400.963565@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:14:00 -0000 To: Jim Blandy Cc: Markus Deuling , Eli Zaretskii , Robert Dewar , pkoning@equallogic.com, eager@eagercon.com, stanshebs@earthlink.net, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: What's an annex? stratum? In-Reply-To: References: <467D5FEF.7010900@eagercon.com> <467D6D1F.7090507@earthlink.net> <467D6FB8.4080909@eagercon.com> <468009EA.4040504@eagercon.com> <18048.5444.903092.843811@pkoning.equallogic.com> <20070625193135.GA6391@caradoc.them.org> <4680199F.7020906@adacore.com> <46815BC2.9070204@de.ibm.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.7 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00319.txt.bz2 > At the moment, GDB: > > - can't print a C++ map value in any reasonable form, > or even a vector, 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. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob