Re: [BUG:MI] -break-list doesn't list multiple breakpoints

Nick Roberts
2008-01-30T06:54:45Z

> > > > > As an alternative, I guess this line alone could be removed so that
> > > > > -break-insert lists the multiple breakpoint locations being set and
> > > > > the adjust MI documentation to explain this.
> > > >
> > > > We should check what the new MI output looks like, and see if it
> > > > breaks Emacs / Eclipse / Kdevelop. It might be that easy.
> > >
> > > It won't break Emacs becuase it doesn't use the output of -break-insert.
> >
> > If the new output from -break-list works OK, that is.
>
> It would be nice to actually *see* the examples of that new output ;-)
> My theory (and why I did not implemented that for MI), is that frontends
> will start showing breakpoint locations as if they were individual
> breakpoint which is likely will fail. To begin with, if frontend uses integer
> to represent breakpoint id, then "1.1" location id won't be representable.

The manual doesn't state that the breakpoint number will be a integer. Without
the file and line information, the frontend can't display breakpoint icons or
display the relevant source in a window, which must be worse.