From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30148 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2008 06:25:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 30133 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2008 06:25:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:25:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D546D2A984E; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:24:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rAxdyk8Id0TT; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:24:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 145602A984C; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:24:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93F99E7ACB; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:24:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:25:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA?] Should break FILE:LINENO skip prologue? Message-ID: <20080113062450.GG9143@adacore.com> References: <20080111182136.GD12954@adacore.com> <200801112113.m0BLDnAF024595@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200801121531.m0CFVW8I023504@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200801121618.m0CGI27U012957@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20080112175817.GA21954@caradoc.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 > > In Ada, as Joel said, this is not true. *FUNCTION won't work > > That's too bad: this is an important feature, so if we cannot make it > work in all languages, we should at least document that. What I suggest is that we document *FUNCTION as a special case and yet very useful form of *EXPRESSION, and explain why it works. We can then mention that this doesn't work as-is in Ada, and see how the same principle can be adapted for this language. -- Joel