From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8303 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2003 22:19:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8296 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2003 22:19:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Oct 2003 22:19:46 -0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (nat-pool-rdu-dmz.redhat.com [172.16.52.200] (may be forged)) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9FMJjM21139 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:19:45 -0400 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9FMJYL27500; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:19:34 -0400 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9FMJXJ08139; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:19:33 -0700 Message-ID: <3F8DC7F5.6050108@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:19:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8] References: <20031008165534.GA8718@nevyn.them.org> <20031008190502.GA13579@nevyn.them.org> <3F846B04.2070801@redhat.com> <3F85B4AC.7000000@redhat.com> <20031014013831.GB6118@nevyn.them.org> <3F8C18DD.3020508@redhat.com> <20031014155126.GA10669@nevyn.them.org> <3F8C605E.1060604@redhat.com> <3F8D6181.6070409@redhat.com> <3F8D8FEB.8020305@redhat.com> <3F8D9246.6030205@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3F8D9246.6030205@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00512.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: >> >> >> > This is needed, as otherwize something apparently simple "break >> strcmp" could result in the user unknowingly setting 1000's of >> breakpoints. >> >> That's true as it is -- I guess what we have now is that >> pop-up menu that says "Which one of these did you mean?" >> I presume that when that interface was implemented, we >> did not expect it to come up all that often. Now, with >> overloaded functions, templates, weird constructors and >> so forth, we anticipate that it will come up more often, >> so we need a less intrusive interface. > > > I'd hazard a guess that the current breakpoint interface and mechanism > pre-date GCC's inline support (which is well before GCC's C++ support)! If you mean the dups-list with prompt, I make it 1993 at latest. Hey, a 10-year-old interface!