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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	        Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch][python] Add breakpoint support.
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3mxxcod14.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100408232547.GN19194@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of 	"Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:25:47 -0700")

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> I almost did implement things that way, and it's certainly better
Joel> than nothing. Maybe I'm letting best be the enemy of good, but there
Joel> are issues with a pure CLI script approach that a user cannot control.
Joel> For instance, what if one of the breakpoints now fails? A CLI script
Joel> would abort early, leaving some of the breakpoints not restored.
Joel> If some of the breakpoints were in DSOs that only get loaded at runtime,
Joel> should they be created as pending? I can't remember what the default
Joel> is when from_tty is not set...  I like the python approach because it
Joel> allows us to provide a more configurable approach than a pure CLI script
Joel> would give us.

FWIW the existing "save breakpoints" command just writes out a script
that can be "source"d.  We just punted on all those problems --
definitely not ideal.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-09 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 13:52 Phil Muldoon
2010-03-29 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 14:53   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-03-29 15:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-05 16:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-06 13:47   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-04-06 18:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-07 21:09     ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-08 12:42       ` Phil Muldoon
2010-04-08 15:29         ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-08 19:48           ` Phil Muldoon
2010-04-08 20:41             ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-08 21:27               ` Phil Muldoon
2010-04-08 21:45                 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-08 22:21                   ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-08 23:26                     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-08 23:40                       ` Pedro Alves
2010-04-09 15:35                       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-04-09 15:32                   ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-08 19:57         ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-09 10:11           ` Phil Muldoon
2010-04-07 21:19     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-06-11 17:41     ` Ulrich Weigand
2010-06-11 20:28       ` Phil Muldoon

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