Annotations (Debugging with GDB)

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28 GDB Annotations

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The annotation mechanism has largely been superseded by GDB/MI (see GDB/MI).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.