Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>]

> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:05:02 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> > 
> > (gdb) info break
> > Num Type           Disp Enb Address    What
> > 1   breakpoint     keep y   0x08048354 in foo::foo (in-charge) at hello.c:8
> >                             0x08048364 in foo::foo (not-in-charge) at hello.c:8
> > (gdb) 
> 
> Here's the problem that I see.
> 
> For foo::foo, there are two of these things.  Having them both in the
> list would be nice.  Really nice.
> 
> For inline_accessor_fn there are 3.8 million.  In addition to needing
> to do a whole lot of work on GDB internals before we could survive this
> (memory usage; ptrace thrashing inserting and removing them; linked
> lists of breakpoints; and that's just the beginning) this has some
> severe user interface implications.  We don't want to print out all
> those addresses by default!
> 
> I'm open to suggestions on how to deal with this.

How about a switch to "info break"?  By default, show only the
in-charge breakpoint, but if the user says "info break -all" or some
such, show the other 3.8 million minus one.