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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Maxim Grigoriev <maxim@tensilica.com>,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	Marc Gauthier <marc@tensilica.com>,
	Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: Faster stepping amidst breakpoints
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110131151229.GA2915@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110131044951.GG2384@adacore.com>

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:49:51AM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Consider "set breakpoint always-inserted".
> > I've been wondering lately if we should flip the default.
> 
> I like the idea of changing the default.
> 
> Do you know what the risks would be?  I looked at the code, and
> there isn't something obvious/delicate, it seems.  Perhaps we might
> find ourselves forgetting to re-insert breakpoints, or inserting
> them twice? I think you guys have more experience than we do?

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.

Pedro, Stan, any thoughts?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-31 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-22 15:06 Maxim Grigoriev
2011-01-24  8:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-01-24 21:08   ` Maxim Grigoriev
2011-01-31  7:47   ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-31 15:39     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2011-02-01  3:23       ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-01 18:44         ` Michael Snyder
2011-02-03  4:55           ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-02 17:10         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-02-03  4:46           ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-13 15:17         ` Mark Kettenis
2011-02-14  3:27           ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-14 10:50             ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-01 15:12       ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-03 22:54     ` Maxim Grigoriev
2011-02-04 16:06       ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-04 19:32         ` Maxim Grigoriev
2011-02-04 16:33       ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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