Re: Faster stepping amidst breakpoints

Michael Snyder
2011-02-01T18:44:14Z

Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> As far as I can remember (you know how much GDB development I do
>> nowadays), the only risks were if GDB crashed and left the application
>> with breakpoints inserted. Of course, I'm in favor of GDB not
>> crashing.
>
> I see this as an acceptable outcome of a debugger crash. I am guessing
> that in most cases, people debug their program, and then want it killed,
> so leaving the inferior behind with breakpoints inserted won't matter
> much

It would matter if you were debugging a live real-world app...