Re: [PATCH] Removal of markup annotations

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:05:04AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > Out of all of the annotations that you are removing here, CGDB only
>  > depends on annotate_breakpoints_headers, annotate_field,
>  > annotate_breakpoints_table, annotate_record and
>  > annotate_breakpoints_table_end.
> 
> These are undocumented annotations and just mark up the output.  Could
> you parse it from the syntax instead?

These were documented when I wrote the CGDB annotation subsystem.
Between now and then, someone changed the documentation.

This link may work to demonstrate the fact.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030627071226/sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_toc.html

I could look into parsing the syntax, but I would prefered if these
stayed. Is this not desirable for some reason?

>  > I'll have to look deeper to verify this, but if this is true, it would
>  > really simplify my life if we could leave those in. That at least would
>  > allow CGDB to work with the next release of GDB while I work on
>  > GDB/MI and getting CGDB to integrate with it.
> 
> I've come to the conclusion that a fully working GDB/MI is a major task.
> Sorting out annotations could be done much more quickly.

I've been extremely busy. When I finish up some tasks, I'm going to
devote myself full time to this task. I would like nothing better than
to see CGDB work with a fully functional GDB/MI.

Bob Rossi