From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14353 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2011 09:51:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 14341 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Apr 2011 09:51:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:51:25 +0000 Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9wjM-0005tS-IO; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:51:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:51:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Tom Tromey CC: pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, sergiodj@redhat.com In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:26:32 -0600) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Introduce `pre_expanded sals' Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <201104121218.08910.pedro@codesourcery.com> 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: 2011-04/txt/msg00182.txt.bz2 > From: Tom Tromey > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Sergio Durigan Junior > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:26:32 -0600 > > Furthermore, I think the `probe:' prefix should let us lift this > restriction anyhow. It is a way of saying "this is not an ordinary > source location, but something else". If so, perhaps we shouldn't consider them locations at all, but rather symbolic names of a set of locations. > I'd rather change gdb to set a breakpoint at all matching locations, and > let the user disambiguate if that is really what he wanted. How would she disambiguate that? Anyway, these issues were discussed at length in the past (with your suggestion being on the table, as well as others), so perhaps we all should re-read that before reiterating the same arguments again.