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

Joel Brobecker
2008-01-10T04:16:08Z

> What about with a gui? The gui way of doing this
> would be to click on the line with the opening curly-brace.

Interestingly, the GUI is what started everything on our side.
Average users using a GUI who wanted to break on a function simply
clicked on the line where the function name was located, and
expected things to just work. A question that I asked myself was:
Why does "break FUNCTION_NAME" skip the prologue and yet "break
FILE:LINENO" (from clicking on the filename) doesn't?

> Sure, I appreciate that -- just speaking up for the other viewpoint.

I understand. I am not denying that the other viewpoint will be negatively
impacted, this is not what I was saying. Is the positive influence on
the other side large enough that the change is worth it? The question
is open. But I think that the fact that Apple made this change, and
that AdaCore also proposed it independently of Apple, shows that the
usage among users of both companies is more in favor of skipping the
prologue.

But if you think that the benefit is not large enough to warrant
the change, then I think that's good feedback, and I'll introduce
a switch and keep the current behavior as the default. I actually
really believe that skipping the prologue is the most useful way
of doing things, but I don't want to sound like I'm pushing hard
for it. I'm happy if we have a switch - just sad that the other
side of the camp doesn't see the light (yet :-P) :-).

--
Joel