Re: [RFA/PATCH] breakpoint.c: fix until command

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-24T01:02:01Z

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:57:00PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:53:22PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > > Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This fixes the problem reported in:
> > > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-11/msg00144.html
> > > >
> > > > testsuite patch coming
> > >
> > > Elena, can you sum up in a sentence or two, what this change
> > > is intended to do?
> >
> > [Since I happen to be reading email right now, I'll do a sketchy
> > imitation.]
> >
> > The problem is that we were marking the breakpoint on the
> > user-specified line with the current frame. But when we hit that
> > breakpoint, if it's in a different function, it will have a different
> > frame. Right now we see that the frames don't match and resume
> > executing.
> >
> > Oops.
>
> OK, thanks. But we _need_ to mark the breakpoint with the current
> frame, because if the breakpoint is in the current frame, we don't
> want to stop in an inner recursive call, ie. not until the current
> frame hits the breakpoint.
>
> So this needs further consideration, and I don't think it can
> be approved as is.

OK. Is that really what you expect "until" to do, though? I'd be
pretty surprised if an inner function call executed that line without
stopping.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer