From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2795 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2008 06:54:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 2787 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2008 06:54:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:54:19 +0000 Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JDwjY-0005ui-MZ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:54:16 -0500 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Joel Brobecker CC: drow@false.org, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20080113062450.GG9143@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:24:50 -0800) Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA?] Should break FILE:LINENO skip prologue? Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20080111182136.GD12954@adacore.com> <200801112113.m0BLDnAF024595@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200801121531.m0CFVW8I023504@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200801121618.m0CGI27U012957@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20080112175817.GA21954@caradoc.them.org> <20080113062450.GG9143@adacore.com> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:54:00 -0000 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:24:50 -0800 > From: Joel Brobecker > Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, > gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > > In Ada, as Joel said, this is not true. *FUNCTION won't work > > > > That's too bad: this is an important feature, so if we cannot make it > > work in all languages, we should at least document that. > > What I suggest is that we document *FUNCTION as a special case and yet > very useful form of *EXPRESSION, and explain why it works. In what languages _does_ it work, besides C/C++?