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@@ -9,6 +9,23 @@ General To Do List
 This list is probably not up to date, and opinions vary about the
 importance or even desirability of some of the items.
 
+Document trace machinery.
+
+Document overlay machinery.
+
+Extend .gdbinit mechanism to specify name on command line, allow for
+lists of files to load, include function of --tclcommand.
+
+@c This does not work (yet if ever).  FIXME.
+@c @item --parse=@var{lang} @dots{}
+@c Configure the @value{GDBN} expression parser to parse the listed languages.
+@c @samp{all} configures @value{GDBN} for all supported languages.  To get a
+@c list of all supported languages, omit the argument.  Without this
+@c option, @value{GDBN} is configured to parse all supported languages.
+
+Add an "info bfd" command that displays supported object formats,
+similarly to objdump -i.
+
 START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED need never be defined to 2, since that
 is its default value.  Clean this up.
 
@@ -60,7 +77,7 @@ as unused statics functions.
 
 Perhaps "i source" should take an argument like that of "list".
 
-See if coredep.c's fetch_core_registers can be used on more machines.
+See if core-aout.c's fetch_core_registers can be used on more machines.
 E.g. MIPS (mips-xdep.c).
 
 unpack_double() does not handle IEEE float on the target unless the host
@@ -105,10 +122,9 @@ blockframe.c, and plenty more. (I count 634 as of 940621 - sts)
 to get to that spot by accident.  E.g. "n" over execute_command which has
 an error.
 
-Watchpoints seem not entirely reliable, though they haven't failed me recently.
-
-"set zeroprint off", don't bother printing members of structs which are entirely
-zero.  Useful for those big structs with few useful members.
+"set zeroprint off", don't bother printing members of structs which
+are entirely zero.  Useful for those big structs with few useful
+members.
 
 GDB does four ioctl's for every command, probably switching terminal modes
 to/from inferior or for readline or something.
@@ -180,7 +196,9 @@ but not get too snowed if it finds references to the older copy.
 
 Generalize and Standardize the RPC interface to a target program,
 improve it beyond the "ptrace" interface, and see if it can become a
-standard for remote debugging.
+standard for remote debugging.  (This is talking about the vxworks
+interface.  Seems unlikely to me that there will be "a standard" for
+remote debugging anytime soon --kingdon, 8 Nov 1994).
 
 Remove all references to:
        text_offset
@@ -293,7 +311,7 @@ versions of GDB can do something halfway reasonable.
 Clean up formatting of "info registers" on MIPS and 88k.  See if it
 is possible to do this generically across all target architectures.
 
-GDB gets bfd/core.c and gdb/core.c confused (this should be easy to
+GDB gets bfd/corefile.c and gdb/corefile.c confused (this should be easy to
 repeat even with something more recent than GDB 4.9).
 
 Check that unmatched RBRAC doesn't abort().
@@ -378,9 +396,6 @@ Why do we allow a target to omit standard register names (NO_STD_REGS
 in tm-z8k.h)?  I thought the standard register names were supposed to
 be just that, standard.
 
-Make DEBUG_EXPRESSIONS a maintenance command, dependent on
-MAINTENANCE_COMMANDS.
-
 Allow core file without exec file on RS/6000.
 
 Make sure "shell" with no arguments works right on DOS.
@@ -462,6 +477,9 @@ Add a command for searching memory, a la adb.  It specifies size,
 mask, value, start address.  ADB searches until it finds it or hits
 an error (or is interrupted).
 
+Remove the range and type checking code and documentation, if not
+going to implement.
+
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