obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface

David Carlton carlton@math.stanford.edu
Tue Jan 21 16:54:00 GMT 2003


On 21 Jan 2003 02:32:01 -0500, Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> said:

> GDB seems to support two different ways of doing detailed annotations
> of its output for consumption by other programs: MI and 'set annotate
> 2'.  I don't think annotation level 2 has many active users, if any at
> all.  It pervades GDB's code.  Would it make sense to put 'set
> annotate 2' on the path to obsolescence?

While we're at it, we should also obsolete gdb -epoch and the
'inspect' command.  (See PR gdb/614.)

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu



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