Re: GDB 6

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

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.  Other things such as NPTL 
> et.al. are obvious nice to have (and probably will because more people 
> are motivated to get them in :-).
> 
> Andrew
> 
> (1) Just ignore the cleanup that will eventually follow, oh and that one 
> of the SPARC and HP/PA variants still need some work.

It sounds mighty good to me.

I'd like to see the new dwarf-frame code finished before GDB 6, but it
sounds like we'll have (just?) enough time.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer