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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] unexpected multiple location for breakpoint
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tyhxbthv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101228112546.GB2436@adacore.com>

> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:25:46 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> As a user, we're expecting the debugger to stop on line 53 at every
> iteration.  But because we only break on the first instance of line 53,
> and because that first instance is outside the actual loop, we end up
> stopping only once.
> 
> (there are some lexical blocks in the assembly code I'm looking at,
> but nothing significant to line 53, I believe).
> 
> According to you, bug or feature?

Definitely a bug.  Whether it can be fixed in some reasonable way, is
another question.

> If this is a bug, then the only solution I can think of is inserting
> a breakpoint at *every* instances of line 53, regardless of
> lexical-block relationships.

When would that be worse than what we have now?


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-23  1:10 Joel Brobecker
2010-11-26 17:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-27 18:35   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-12-10 12:23     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-28 11:50       ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-28 20:15         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-12-29  6:08           ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-29  8:08             ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-29 19:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-30 20:40               ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-30 21:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31  6:35                 ` Michael Snyder

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