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This chapter describes annotations in GDB. Annotations were designed to interface GDB to graphical user interfaces or other similar programs which want to interact with GDB at a relatively high level.
The annotation mechanism has largely been superseded by GDB/MI (see GDB/MI).
| • Annotations Overview: | What annotations are; the general syntax. | |
| • Server Prefix: | Issuing a command without affecting user state. | |
| • Prompting: | Annotations marking GDB’s need for input. | |
| • Errors: | Annotations for error messages. | |
| • Invalidation: | Some annotations describe things now invalid. | |
| • Annotations for Running: | Whether the program is running, how it stopped, etc. | |
| • Source Annotations: | Annotations describing source code. |