From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6335 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2004 21:33:45 -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 6326 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2004 21:33:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2004 21:33:44 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (toocool.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.72]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A94F800195; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:33:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4022B6B8.4020400@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:33:00 -0000 From: Jeff Johnston User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: drow@mvista.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3] References: <400EE69A.5030902@redhat.com> <20040122222741.GA17425@nevyn.them.org> <4016CCE0.5060900@redhat.com> <20040130041316.GA28843@nevyn.them.org> <401AA79B.7010307@redhat.com> <20040130190927.GA19379@nevyn.them.org> <401ADEA3.6010500@redhat.com> <20040130234543.GA12519@nevyn.them.org> <401AF7E0.5020406@redhat.com> <401EBD31.9060907@redhat.com> <20040202212225.GA7982@nevyn.them.org> <401ECCB2.2010205@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050508010105010001090300" X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00110.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050508010105010001090300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 867 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:18:26 -0500 >>From: Jeff Johnston >> >>Ok, how about the accompanying patch? >> >>-- Jeff J. >> >>2004-02-02 Jeff Johnston >> >> * NEWS: Add information about new pending breakpoint support. > > > Thanks. Is it possible to modify the wording so that it doesn't use > passive tense so much? I'm told by native English speakers that > passive is BAD... > > For example, this: > > >>If a breakpoint location cannot be found, you are queried to see if >>you wish to make the breakpoint pending on a future shared-library >>load. > > > could be rephrased like this: > > If a breakpoint location cannot be found, GDB queries you if you > wish to make the breakpoint pending on ... > > Etc., you get the point. > > TIA > > Is the attached ok to commit? --------------050508010105010001090300 Content-Type: text/plain; name="news.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="news.patch" Content-length: 852 Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.135 diff -u -r1.135 NEWS --- NEWS 5 Feb 2004 19:56:33 -0000 1.135 +++ NEWS 5 Feb 2004 21:31:35 -0000 @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ *** Changes since GDB 6.0: +* Pending breakpoint support + +Support has been added to allow specifying breakpoints in shared libraries +that have not yet been loaded. If a breakpoint location cannot be found, +GDB queries you if you wish to make the breakpoint pending on a +future shared-library load. If and when GDB resolves the breakpoint symbol, +the pending breakpoint is removed as one or more regular breakpoints are +created. Pending breakpoints are very useful for gcj java debugging. + * Removed --with-mmalloc Support for the mmalloc memory manager has been removed, as it --------------050508010105010001090300--