GDB 6

[Andrew Cagney]

> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:58:08PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> The sole objective for GDB 6 was to have GDB multi-arch.  Since Joel has 
>> now committed a change that multi-arch partial's the HP/PA, and all 
>> architectures can be built multi-arch partial, it can be argued that GDB 
>> has technically reached this goal(1).
>> 
>> Given this, I think the next release of GDB should be named ``GDB 6''.
>> 
>> In doing this, there is an oportunity to, identify as obsolete (but not 
>> actually delete) a few extra bits..  The following come to mind:
>> 
>> - non event loop platforms
>> - DWARF (a.k.a., DWARF 1)
>> 
>> People with systems that rely on said features can always download the 
>> GDB 5 series debuggers.
>> 
>> With regard to annotations, someone [me] still still has the 
>> documentation and testsuite to update (....).  That, I think is the only 
>> ``must have'' thing for the next GDB release.  
> 
> 
> What exactly do you mean here?
> Annotations Level 2 will stay in gdb for version 6.0?
> This would truly be a great thing.

It won't have been deleted (but it would continue to be on notice).

Andrew