Re: [RFC/RFA?] Should break FILE:LINENO skip prologue?

Joel Brobecker
2008-01-15T03:57:16Z

Hi Michael,

> Joel, if my memory is correct, this is because the "*" is not
> interpreted by the language parser, it is interpreted by the
> linespec parser.

Right. In my mind, the issue was not with the "*", but in determining
for each language if the expression "FUNCTION_NAME" returned the
function address or not. It looks like it is the case for most
languages supported by GDB. The only exceptions apparently are
Ada and SCM.

--
Joel