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Re: [PATCH] Removal of markup annotations
> > > 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
OK but they still just mark up the output.
> I could look into parsing the syntax, but I would prefered if these
> stayed. Is this not desirable for some reason?
They make the code in breakpoint.c harder to read. It's a question of
balancing the inconvenience of keeping them with that of removing them.
Nick