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

Andreas Schwab
2008-01-15T23:24:08Z

"Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com> writes:

> The set of valid expressions varies with the language, but none of
> them support any string of the form FILENAME:FUNCTION as expression.
> However, for *some* languages (e.g. C, but not Ada), a function name
> happens to be a valid expression that evaluates to the address of
> that function. It is only due to that "accident" that
> break *FUNCTION
> does indeed set a breakpoint at the address of FUNCTION (assuming
> the current language is C).

Note that the value of FUNCTION is even target dependent. On ppc64
ordinary function symbols point to function descriptors, whereas code
addresses have symbols that start with a '.'.

Andreas.

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