Re: MI and pending breakpoints

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Bob Rossi wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 08:19:59AM -0800, Jim Ingham wrote:
>> You need to set the gdb variable "pending" to "on" before setting the
>> breakpoint.  Since this is kind of a pain, we added a "-f" option  
>> to -
>> break-insert that will do this for you wrapped around the breakpoint
>> setting ("-f" because this feature was called "future-break" in the
>> NeXT gdb many years ago.)
>>
>> It's also arguable that for -break-insert you ALWAYS want "pending"
>> to be "on".
>
> That's how annotate=2 works. However, I think GDB should query the  
> user
> the same way it does from the CLI. It's wierd when people start  
> using my
> front end and ask why it behaves differently than the CLI.

Not sure I agree with this.  AFAICT, the main reason for asking the  
user is that you can easily mis-type a file:line spec, and it's good  
to have the CLI tell you this didn't set so you can check your  
spelling.  But this should not be possible for the most common type  
of breakpoint in a UI, which is clicking in the gutter of an editor  
window.

I think having the UI query would be disruptive...

Jim