Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>]

> From: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:03:11 -0700
> 
> I would be careful to stay away from turning "logically" specified 
> breakpoints (by which I mean specified on function name or source 
> location) into addresses to the user.  Even between rerunnings of the 
> same executable a library's load address can shift, causing the address 
> to move.  gdb can probably still make the equivalency between the 
> breakpoints - most slides are rigid, for instance.  But the address 
> doesn't show this.

I didn't say that GDB should _store_ the address that the user types
in order to disambiguate the place where to put the trap.  It is just
a means to tell GDB which of the possibilities to take.  It has an
advantage of being natural to GDB users, since you can put a
breakpoint on a specific address in current versions of GDB.

After the trap was put, if GDB can solve the problem of moving
addresses (as it does that now), it can also solve the problem we are
discussing here.