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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, doc RFA] Split create-breakpoint! into make-breakpoint, register-breakpoint!
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4xdf57p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fvjl889b.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 04 Jun	2014 10:05:20 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:

>> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:53:48 -0700
>> 
>> In keeping with the splitting of object creation and registration into
>> two separate pieces, this does the same for breakpoints.
>> "Consistency Is Good".
>> 
>> There hasn't been an FSF release of gdb+guile yet so I think it's ok
>> to remove create-breakpoint! here.
>
> OK for the documentation part, but is delete-breakpoint a better name
> than breakpoint-delete?.

I prefer ‘delete-breakpoint!’.

> A question: how does one discard breakpoint objects so that they no
> longer exist?  It seems that breakpoint-delete! only "deregisters" the
> breakpoint, but there's no way to undo the effect of the
> create-breakpoint procedure.

They just get garbage collected eventually.

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04  4:54 Doug Evans
2014-06-04  7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-04  8:29   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-06-04  9:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-04 13:47       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-04  8:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-05  2:58   ` Doug Evans

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