Re: PR8554: New command to save breakpoints to a file

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Thursday 15 April 2010 19:46:15, Michael Snyder wrote:
>> Pedro Alves wrote:
>>> On Thursday 15 April 2010 18:51:55, Michael Snyder wrote:
>>>> What about watchpoints?  Do we get all the context info right?
>>> Watchpoints on globals, as right as breakpoints.  Watchpoints on
>>> locals, no, you're just out of luck.  I don't think there's
>>> much to do there; GDB gets rid of those on process start/exit,
>>> so users are used to those not being very "persistanteable".
>>> OTOH, it may be useful to be able to dump watchpoints on locals,
>>> and be able to load them up when you know it's okay, so never
>>> dumping those isn't that great either.  So, IMO, we shouldn't
>>> worry much about those, at least, in this first patch.  :-)  I
>>> could add a note to the manual, perhaps.
>> That's cool.  So what do we do now?  Just skip them?
>> Save the global ones, skip the local ones?
> 
> We save them.
> 

Oh -- and on reload, some of them fail?

Shouldn't be difficult to skip saving all of them, but what about
skipping the locals and saving the globals?  Hard?