Re: [RFC] breakpoints and function prologues...

Andrew Cagney
2002-08-25T14:33:36Z

> Yes, we could change -break-insert to do this.
>
> It would still break when somebody uses the console to set breakpoints from within Project Builder, however. Like with Insight, we try to support the console as well as we can from PB (we don't do as good a job as Insight, but we are working towards it).

We're talking Mac here right? I thought (sarcasm) Mac users did
everything using the GUI and AppleScript.

> I guess we could go note the breakpoint set event, delete the breakpoint that was just set IF it was set with file:line, and reset it with the "move me past the prologue" cookie. But this seems a bit of a hack.

Is your [apple] bug with a GUI user finding that a breakpoint on a
function confuses the GUI; or with a GUI user finding that entering the
CLI command ``break file.c:10'' confuses the GUI? (A CLI user would
have used ``break func'' :-)

We've concluded that the former can be fixed without any need to change
the CLI.

For the latter, the user can still enter ``break *0x1234'' and confuse
the GUI. Should GDB ``helpfully'' move that as well? I think the only
thing that can be done is ensure that the GUI doesn't get confused (or
at least gets confused gracefully :-). For instance, realise that its
got a PC in the prologue and display ``incomplete stack frame''.

Andrew