Re: [RFA] 12843

Pedro Alves
2011-08-29T13:53:56Z

On Monday 29 August 2011 13:17:02, André Pönitz wrote:
> On Monday 29 August 2011 12:12:53 ext Pedro Alves wrote:
> > > Just using new flags for the parameters should do the trick in this case.
> >
> > Yeah, though I expect frontends to support letting the user specify
> > manually where to insert the breakpoint (say, with a popup dialog
> > where you write foo.exe:bar or something more complicated,
>
> It's the IDE's job to capture the user's intentions, i.e. either let the
> user provide explicit information about the kind of the breakpoint
> (file and line, function, 'on throw' etc) directly in the dialog, or do
> the kind of linespec parsing gdb currently does (which feels pretty
> unnatural for a "normal" GUI user who typically does not even want
> to know what kind of debugging "backend" is used.

I'd say the latter is arguable. Note I did not suggest that new switches
like --file and --line would be bad, I even agreed!
As long as the old form works, looks like everyone will be happy?

Thanks,
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Pedro Alves