This proposal has been discussed on this gdb-patches mailing list, and
there has been no consensus. Some of us are in favor of this change,
others are against. I am submitting this change for approval as a
request to make a decision. I don't know if making a small summary of
the different points for/against this change of behavior would be
useful, all the discussion is archived under

   [RFC] breakpoints and function prologues...

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-07/msg00448.html and
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-07/msg00451.html

Let me know if you would like to see such a summary (I'll try not to
distort too much the different points too much in my favor :-).

2002-08-29  Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>

        * linespec.c (decode_line_1): Skip the function prologue if
        funfirstline is set. Changes the behavior of the break command
        to skip the function prologue when breaking by line number.

This change introduces 5 FAILs in one testcase which assumes the current
behavior, so the FAIL is expected. Should this patch be approved, I'll
the testcase up.

Ahem... Ok to apply?
-- 
Joel