[Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface

[Andrew Cagney]

>> And the missing features are...?
> 
> 
> I've stated them at least 3 times in this thread (which I assume is archived),
> but here there are again:
> 
> - stability in the MI interface

Um, by stable you mean?  Each iteration of GDB leads to changes in both 
the MI and the CLI.  However, at at least with the MI those changes are 
identified, documented and tested.

> - ability to provide a user console with the CLI syntax

People have been working on that.  Apple has a hacked GDB where it works 
NOW!

> Note that we haven't started implemented support for MI in GVD, so these are
> really the two obvious features. Others may appear when we start implementing
> the real support.
> 
> What are the gdb front-ends currently using MI ? It would be interesting to
> see the state of these front-ends and the problems encountered.

Apple's Project Builder.
The Eclipse project.

The problems they have encountered have been turned into bug reports. 
See the bug database.  The only big one is the console and both Apple 
and Eclipse managed to hack around it.

Andrew