From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: drow@false.org, vladimir@codesourcery.com,
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix breakpoint condition that use member variables.
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206392636.19253.1122.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uod93g9lr.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:17 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, vladimir@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:05:27 -0700
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:09 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:49:31 -0400
> > > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > > > Cc: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>,
> > > > gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:55:42PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > > That could surprise the user. Is it possible to make an additional
> > > > > change to look for possible other interpretations of i_ which are
> > > > > currently in scope, and display a warning of some kind if such
> > > > > possibilities are found?
> > > >
> > > > This is how breakpoint conditions have worked as long as I can
> > > > remember
> > >
> > > But we could try make it better, couldn't we?
> >
> > I should think that the "i_" that's chosen should be the
> > one in the scope of the breakpoint, not the one that is in
> > scope when the breakpoint is created.
> >
> > Is that not what Vladimir is saying?
>
> I don't know (I'm not Vladimir), but that's not *exactly* what I was
> saying. Imagine the situation where: you have the inferior stopped in
> a function that lives in a module which has a variable i_ in global
> scope. You decide to place a breakpoint in some other function in the
> same module, and condition it on i_. So far so good; however,
> unbeknownst to you, there's also a local variable i_ in the function
> where you put the breakpoint. How can this be unbeknownst, you ask?
> easy: suppose you not really look into that function, just see its
> call, and want to step through it.
>
> IOW, the use case I was thinking of is when i_ happens to be in scope
> both when you set the breakpoint _and_ when it breaks.
OK, but if that's an issue, it's always been an issue.
The present behavior is that the 'i_' that's local to
the scope of the breakpoint wins.
Vladimir's change just makes it more consistant, in that
the 'i_ that's in the breakpoint scope still wins, but now
it wins even if it's in the "class" scope of the breakpoint,
not just the automatic scope.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-24 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-22 9:40 Vladimir Prus
2008-03-22 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-22 12:36 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-03-22 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-22 13:20 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-03-22 14:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-22 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-24 18:05 ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-24 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-24 21:04 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-04-01 14:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-04-03 12:51 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-03 13:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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