Re: [PATCH] Hooks still needed for annotations

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:57:48AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
>  > They are deprecated.  I believe there's a clear consensus that the
>  > entire annotation system is going to go, and in the near future.  Just
>  > not yet.
> 
> Then lets try to remove the ones that can go.  In 2003 Andrew introduced
> level 3 annotations as a subset of level 2 (with the markup annotations
> left out).  Since then I have been using those quite happily with Emacs.
> 
> So, as far as Emacs is concerned, the annotations that are restricted to
> level 2 in annotate.c, and this must be over half of them, can go.
> 
> Bob is this also the case for CGDB?

I could look and see what annotations CGDB uses. Would this be helpful?
I think it's only a handful.

> Emacs doesn't use breakpoints-invalid or frames-invalid either and they
> spew out so often that it makes it hard to interrupt the inferior.  However
> I would like to keep them for the moment, as they provide clues as to where
> to put code for event nortification in MI.  Perhaps these could be restricted
> to level 2.

I still use level 2, and personally thought introducing level 3 was a
really bad idea. Do you already use level 3, or could we simply just
start stripping down level 2?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi