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From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, tromey@redhat.com
Subject: Re: PR8554: New command to save breakpoints to a file
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004100110.02838.sergiodj@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004091823.31659.pedro@codesourcery.com>

On Friday 09 April 2010 14:23:31, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > Pedro> The new breakpoint_ops->print_recreate method implementation for
> > Pedro> all catchpoints is always mostly a simplified version of
> > Pedro> breakpoint_ops->print_mention method.
> > 
> > Could you enlighten me on a historical (?) point?  Why is it that some
> > kinds of breakpoints have methods like this and some do not?  Is this an
> > incomplete transition, or an intentional design choice?
> 
> I think the former.  breakpoint_ops was added initialy for some
> catchpoints in 2003.  I wasn't around then.

FWIW, Joel has kindly made fork/vfork catchpoints use the breakpoint_ops, but 
this was only in 2008.

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-10/msg00148.html

-- 
Sergio


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09  2:41 Pedro Alves
2010-04-09 16:17 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-09 17:23   ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-10  4:10     ` Sergio Durigan Junior [this message]
2010-04-12 18:15     ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-15 17:52       ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 18:27         ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-15 18:46           ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 18:53             ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-15 18:58               ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 19:58                 ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-15 22:49                   ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 22:52                     ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 22:58                       ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 23:05                         ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-15 23:15                           ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 23:25                             ` Pedro Alves
2010-05-05  8:28                               ` Hui Zhu
2010-04-15 23:14                         ` Michael Snyder
2010-04-15 23:20                           ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-15 23:01                     ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-15 18:59           ` Stan Shebs
2010-04-15 19:10             ` Pedro Alves

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