From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, brobecker@adacore.com (Joel Brobecker),
msnyder@specifix.com, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA?] Should break FILE:LINENO skip prologue?
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jebq7mu0zi.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801152140.m0FLeMha003566@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> (Ulrich Weigand's message of "Tue\, 15 Jan 2008 22\:40\:22 +0100 \(CET\)")
"Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com> writes:
> The set of valid expressions varies with the language, but none of
> them support any string of the form FILENAME:FUNCTION as expression.
> However, for *some* languages (e.g. C, but not Ada), a function name
> happens to be a valid expression that evaluates to the address of
> that function. It is only due to that "accident" that
> break *FUNCTION
> does indeed set a breakpoint at the address of FUNCTION (assuming
> the current language is C).
Note that the value of FUNCTION is even target dependent. On ppc64
ordinary function symbols point to function descriptors, whereas code
addresses have symbols that start with a '.'.
Andreas.
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2008-01-09 15:18 Joel Brobecker
2008-01-09 19:11 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-09 19:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-09 19:46 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-09 20:38 ` Eric Botcazou
2008-01-10 11:01 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-10 11:45 ` Eric Botcazou
2008-01-10 21:47 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-10 22:10 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-11 5:36 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-11 11:28 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-11 18:22 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-11 21:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-11 21:14 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-12 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-12 14:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-12 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-12 14:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-12 15:32 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-12 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-12 16:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-12 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-12 16:18 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-12 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-12 17:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-13 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-13 6:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-13 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-13 10:36 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-14 23:02 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-15 3:57 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-14 22:57 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-13 9:21 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-13 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-14 22:25 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-14 22:33 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-14 10:30 ` Pierre Muller
2008-01-14 12:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-14 23:00 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-15 17:13 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-14 22:17 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-14 22:50 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-15 12:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-15 12:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-15 17:15 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-15 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-15 21:40 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-01-15 23:24 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-01-16 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-16 9:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-16 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-16 21:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-16 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-16 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-16 10:35 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-16 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-16 21:36 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-17 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-17 4:18 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-17 9:47 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-17 21:51 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-17 22:09 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-17 23:42 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-17 18:38 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-19 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-20 15:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-20 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-21 2:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-26 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-16 21:25 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-16 2:10 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-11 20:32 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-11 20:36 ` Eric Botcazou
2008-01-10 22:21 ` Eric Botcazou
2008-01-10 14:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-10 17:06 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-09 19:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-09 19:16 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-09 20:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-09 20:25 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-09 20:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-09 21:05 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-10 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-10 4:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-10 9:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-11 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-10 10:39 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-10 15:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-10 15:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-11 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-10 15:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-10 21:49 ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-10 17:15 ` Jim Blandy
2008-01-31 22:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-31 22:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-02-02 1:20 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-02-27 19:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-27 20:52 ` Joel Brobecker
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