Re: [RFC]: new set breakpoint pending and show breakpoint pending commands

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>]

Ping...[excluding Eli who graciously reviewed the doc change]

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> The following patch adds a setting to control how gdb creates pending 
> breakpoints.  At Andrew's suggestion, I have made the setting a 
> subsetting of breakpoint so future breakpoint settings will all be 
> grouped together.
> 
> The setting is an auto boolean and has three settings: on, off, and 
> auto.  The default behavior is auto which is the current default 
> behavior of querying before setting a pending breakpoint.  The on 
> setting causes pending breakpoints to be created automatically without 
> prompting and the off setting causes no pending breakpoints to be 
> created.  The off setting causes an error to occur which matches the 
> previous behavior Andrew was seeing with regard to scripts.
> 
> I have included a doc patch but will wait on posting a change to 
> pending.exp until everyone is ok with the interface.  A change is not 
> required to make pending.exp work, it would just exercise the new 
> functionality.  I have tested the new settings manually.
> 
> Ok?
> 
> -- Jeff J.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2004-02-10  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> 
>         * breakpoint.c (pending_break_support): New setting variable.
>         (break_command_1): Account for pending_break_support setting
>         when creating pending breakpoints.
>         (set_breakpoint_cmd, show_breakpoint_cmd): New functions.
>         (_initialize_breakpoint): Add "set breakpoint pending" and
>         "show breakpoint pending" commands.
> 
> doc/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2004-02-10  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> 
>         * gdb.texinfo (breakpoints): Add information about the
>         new "set breakpoint pending" and "show breakpoint pending"
>         commands.
> 
> 
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