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

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > > >  > > 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.


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