Re: [PATCH 2/6] Introduce `pre_expanded sals'

Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-13T09:51:39Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
> 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.