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

Jeff Johnston
2004-02-26T23:47:43Z

Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> Double Ping ...
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> Thought I'd covered it, sorry. Yes, ok (and finally some more sanity in
> GDB's cli structure!)
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> Can you create a breakpoint bug report to move all the other breakpoint
> options into "set/show breakpoint".
>
> Andrew
>

Done. See gdb/1575. Patch checked in. Thanks.

-- Jeff J.

>> Jeff Johnston wrote:
>>
>>> Ping...[excluding Eli who graciously reviewed the doc change]
>>>
>>> Jeff Johnston wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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