Re: [RFA/controversial] move bp by line number past the prologue

Kevin Buettner
2002-08-29T21:46:40Z

On Aug 29, 4:33pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> > I've reread the thread in which this matter was discussed earlier
> > (i.e, the "[RFC] breakpoints and function prologues" messages). Given
> > that there was such disagreement before, I doubt that everyone will
> > agree with my point of view. If this turns out to be the case, might
> > I suggest a user settable option for controlling whether setting a
> > breakpoint by line number will always cause the prologue to be
> > skipped? That way both sides get the behavior they want. (GUIs can
> > set the desired behavior at initialization time.)
>
> GUI and CLI behavior should be kept independant. Running GDB under a
> GUI, should not affect the CLI.

Perhaps a different interface is needed for the GUI to use?

Kevin