Re: [RFA] breakpoint.c: don't generate bp events for internal bps

Eli Zaretskii
2001-05-11T08:04:00Z

> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 07:08:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com>
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > > Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:24:45 -0400
> > > From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > It is OK to only generate events for visible breakpoints, but the hook
> > > must run for all breakpoints. Whatever is using the hook may need to
> > > know about the internal ones as well.
> >
> > I agree. But I would go even farther: is it possible to explain why
> > is it a good idea to make this change? What exactly is wrong with
> > generating breakpoint events as we do now?
>
> Do the words "it's stupid" mean anything to you?

I looked them up ;-)

> From gdb-events.h:
>
> /* User Interface Events.
> Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> "User Interface Events". User interfaces don't care about internal
> breakpoints -- only user-set breakpoints. IMO all of the breakpoints
> excluded from the event trigger are BACKEND breakpoints, and they should
> not ever be exposed to users (or non-backend code).
>
> If someone writing ui code needs to know about internal breakpoints, he
> doing something wrong.

Sorry, I still don't get the relevance of this to what I asked.
Perhaps I'm stupid.