GDB Annotations

This chapter describes annotations in GDB. Annotations are designed to interface GDB to graphical user interfaces or other similar programs which want to interact with GDB at a relatively high level.

• Annotations Overview: What annotations are; the general syntax.
• Server Prefix: Issuing a command without affecting user state.
• Value Annotations: Values are marked as such.
• Frame Annotations: Stack frames are annotated.
• Displays: GDB can be told to display something periodically.
• Prompting: Annotations marking GDB's need for input.
• Errors: Annotations for error messages.
• Breakpoint Info: Information on breakpoints.
• 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.
• TODO: Annotations which might be added in the future.

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