Re: [rfa] PROBLEMS: document 'constructor breakpoint ignored' bug

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:49:47AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> 
>  Daniel> Sure, since it's not going to be fixed in time.  Go for it.
> 
> As a workaround, I patched my local copy of gdb to use the "verbose"
> demangler mode, so the various flavors of constructors/destructors DO
> have different names.  They are *weird* names, but at least you can
> refer to their entry points by name that way.
> 
> It's a trivial patch.  It changes the way constructors are named in
> gdb, but that doesn't seem to be a big deal if it changes them from
> conventionally named but unuseable things into strangely named but
> useable... 
> 
> Interested in that approach, as a stopgap -- rather than document the
> restriction?

No, I'm not.  Using verbose mode will break a number of other things. 
The verbose output is even less machine-parseable than the non-verbose
output.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer