Re: [RFA/controversial] move bp by line number past the prologue

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>]

> On Aug 29, 11:15am, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> 
> 
>> 2002-08-29  Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
>> 
>>         * linespec.c (decode_line_1): Skip the function prologue if
>>         funfirstline is set. Changes the behavior of the break command
>>         to skip the function prologue when breaking by line number.
> 
> 
> Joel,
> 
> My opinion is that this is a reasonable change providing that we
> still have a mechanism for setting a breakpoint on the prologue.
> When I want to do this I usually do ``b *foo'' instead of relying
> on line numbers.  (Usually I don't know the line number anyway.)
> So, I have no objection to this patch so long as it doesn't change
> the present behavior of ``b *foo''.
> 
> I've reread the thread in which this matter was discussed earlier
> (i.e, the "[RFC] breakpoints and function prologues" messages).  Given
> that there was such disagreement before, I doubt that everyone will
> agree with my point of view.  If this turns out to be the case, might
> I suggest a user settable option for controlling whether setting a
> breakpoint by line number will always cause the prologue to be
> skipped?  That way both sides get the behavior they want.  (GUIs can
> set the desired behavior at initialization time.)

GUI and CLI behavior should be kept independant.  Running GDB under a 
GUI, should not affect the CLI.

Andrew