Stefan Monnier writes:

>> Right, both were assuming the use of the "interpreter-exec" command.
> Makes sense.  But as I said, I think for 24.1, it's too late to make
> this change.

Sure.

I've attached a series of patches to:

* Check if we are using a supported gdb interpreter

* Disable gdb annotations

* gdb >= 7 should be considered recent
  
  In addition, command "maint set linux-async on" does not exist.


Feel free to change the code, as I don't know if my approach is the cleanliest
way of doing it.


Lluis