From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12188 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2003 06:58:02 -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 12180 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2003 06:58:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.209.173) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 06:58:00 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BD63CB4; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 01:57:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E3F646C.2030609@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 06:58:00 -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: Mike Mueller Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00069.txt.bz2 > I would like to reiterate the points that many have made thus far. Sorry, not that many. A few have expressed concerns but I believe that those concerns have been addressed. > Existing applications depend on annotate level 1 (ddd, gvd, ...) and > level 2 (emacs, cgdb). All released versions of EMACS use level-one annotations. Only an unreleased development uses level-two. Plans are underway to migrate that away from level-two. > Until the MI interface is complete (supports > CLI and GDB user output) and all existing applications have made > the switch to using the MI, the annotations cannot be removed. > My current understanding is that GDB/MI is not a completely viable > alternative for these GDB interfaces to use to replace annotate 1 or > 2. Therefore, the annotations -- while being deprecated -- must be > retained in future releases until the GDB/MI is capable of > supporting these applications. The changes are sitting on the: interps-20030201-branch I've just reviewed and cleaned them up - now pass without regressions. So commit is tomorrow. Andrew