Re: [MI tracepoints 5/9] -break-passcount

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>]

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 18:56:09 Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> Volodya> I am not sure. Given that tracepoints are special kind of
> Volodya> breakpoint now, I'd rather have -break-passcount, with -trace
> Volodya> command reserversed for overall control of tracing. After all,
> Volodya> mixing -break-insert -a with later -trace-passcount may be
> Volodya> confusing.
> 
> It is odd to have a command named -break-passcount that can't actually
> be used on breakpoints

It can -- just not on all kinds of breakpoints.

> -- and that will never be usable on breakpoints.

You mean, on "ordinary" breakpoints? It's totally unclear -- while presently
tracing breakpoints are always target assisted, we may in future implement
a software tracing breakpoints, where GDB would execute the commands implicitly
for user.

Thanks,

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