Re: [RFC]: new set breakpoint pending and show breakpoint pending commands

Jeff Johnston
2004-02-19T22:38:53Z

Ping...[excluding Eli who graciously reviewed the doc change]

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> The following patch adds a setting to control how gdb creates pending
> breakpoints. At Andrew's suggestion, I have made the setting a
> subsetting of breakpoint so future breakpoint settings will all be
> grouped together.
>
> The setting is an auto boolean and has three settings: on, off, and
> auto. The default behavior is auto which is the current default
> behavior of querying before setting a pending breakpoint. The on
> setting causes pending breakpoints to be created automatically without
> prompting and the off setting causes no pending breakpoints to be
> created. The off setting causes an error to occur which matches the
> previous behavior Andrew was seeing with regard to scripts.
>
> I have included a doc patch but will wait on posting a change to
> pending.exp until everyone is ok with the interface. A change is not
> required to make pending.exp work, it would just exercise the new
> functionality. I have tested the new settings manually.
>
> Ok?
>
> -- Jeff J.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> 2004-02-10 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
>
> * breakpoint.c (pending_break_support): New setting variable.
> (break_command_1): Account for pending_break_support setting
> when creating pending breakpoints.
> (set_breakpoint_cmd, show_breakpoint_cmd): New functions.
> (_initialize_breakpoint): Add "set breakpoint pending" and
> "show breakpoint pending" commands.
>
> doc/ChangeLog:
>
> 2004-02-10 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
>
> * gdb.texinfo (breakpoints): Add information about the
> new "set breakpoint pending" and "show breakpoint pending"
> commands.
>
>
>