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

Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-17T04:13:42Z

> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, uweigand@de.ibm.com,
> brobecker@adacore.com, msnyder@specifix.com,
> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:36:11 -0800
>
> GDB allows 'FILENAME'::FUNCTION in C expressions:

Thanks.

But if "break *'FILENAME'::FUNCTION" works, why is it wrong to expect
that "break *FILENAME:FUNCTION" should also work. None of them is a
valid C expression, it's just something GDB does to help the user,
right?