From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Faster stepping amidst breakpoints
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203045457.GL2384@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D485476.4040809@vmware.com>
> >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...
Of course, that's why I was careful to say that it does matter sometimes.
The change is not going to be beneficial in 100% of the cases. But if
it is an improvement in the majority of the cases, then that's still
progress. Those of us who are occasionally in the situation where it
isn't have the option of switching the setting back.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 4:55 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
2011-02-01 3:23 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-01 18:44 ` Michael Snyder
2011-02-03 4:55 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
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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