From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9476 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2003 05:37:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9468 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2003 05:37:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.209.173) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 29 Jan 2003 05:37:01 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C77C406D; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:36:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E37687A.7000708@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 05:37:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Roberts Cc: Jim Blandy , rms@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface References: <15917.39229.935851.920452@nick.uklinux.net> <15927.12416.601404.240113@nick.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00473.txt.bz2 > I think this is what has baffled a lot of GDB users. There are something like > 39 problem reports open for MI and only 14 closed (I'm hesitant to say this as > I applaud the transparency of the system and I don't want to encourage > secrecy). We don't see how the GDB developers can deprecate annotations or > encourage users to switch to MI until it is ready. Ah, don't be fooled by statistics. GDB has 600 open `bugs' (out of 900) yet GDB still works pretty well. Rather than look at the bugs, look at the MI testsuite and all the cases it verifies as working correctly. Andrew