[Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface

[Arnaud Charlet]

> 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.

By stable I mean that the set of commands and their output are reasonably
stable and do not change significantly from one version to another.

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

Right, that's not acceptable in the context of a multipurpose and portable
GUI front-end, where basically people can plug the version of gdb they like.
So Apple's approach of hacking a particular version of gdb is not feasible,
and not something that can be maintained in the long run.

> 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.

Does it mean that there are no plans to actually fix this critical missing
feature, and that each front-end will have to "hack around it" ?

I will look again at Eclipse support for gdb. Last time I looked, its
support was relatively simple, certainly not at the same level than what
GVD offers.

Arno