Re: my 6.0 todo list

Andrew Cagney
2003-07-18T22:54:20Z

>
> Are the changes non-backward compatible ?
> Did mi2 ever went out in any official release ?
>
> 5.2.1 & 5.3 was -mi 1
>
> Sorry I did not follows the in/out of MI. Feel free to redirect
> to the appropriate README/NEWS.
>
> I need to audit exactly what, in MI land, changed. If there is something lumpy then the following should happen:
>
> cp mi-*.exp mi2-*.exp to `freeze' mi2.
> increment mi2->mi3 in the mainline.
>
> Andrew

Ok, `I remember'.

Post this release, the varobj interfaces will need to be changed so that
it uses frame-id's, and not simple stack addresses, to identify specific
frames. It will fix some nasty edge cases but at the same time (likely)
break compatibility. The old way was simply wrong :-/

Andrew