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

Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-10T04:16:34Z

> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:04:55 -0800
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:34 -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > First of all, thanks for your feedback.
> >
> > > If gdb decided not to LET me stop in the middle of the
> > > prologue, I would be exceedingly pissed off.
> >
> > Everyone that I have polled so far told me that they used the
> > "break *function_name" syntax to break at the beginning of the
> > prologue. So GDB would not preventing you from doing it.
>
> But I habitually do it both ways.

This means a user option is in order to determine this behavior.