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Re: obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: ac131313 at redhat dot com, jimb at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:09:20 -0600
- Subject: Re: obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface
Andrew C asks:
> What of the other potential clients (DDD, ...)?
I glanced at DDD. The most recent DDD is DDD 3.3.1, released 2001-05-02.
It has a "-fullname" option which it passes down to gdb. ddd/GDBAgent.c
has code to discard any annotation-2 output coming from gdb:
# ddd/GDBAgent.c
case '\032':
// In annotation level 2, GDB sends out `annotation'
// sequences like `\n\032\032prompt\n'. Future DDD
// versions might want to look at these annotations; right
// now, we simply weed them out.
There's similar code for the annotation-2 prompt. I didn't see any code
in DDD 3.3.1 to turn on annotation, it just wants to ignore any
annotation-2 that the user turns on.
The CVS version of ddd/GDBAgent.c (from sourceforge) still has this code.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd has links to several other front ends,
including: gvd, insight, kdbg, xxgdb, tgdb, xwpe.
Let me know if it would be useful to chase all these projects down and
report on them.
Michael C