Re: breakpoints in C++ constructors

Paul Koning
2004-09-15T00:06:08Z

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:

>> In the following thread, Daniel Jacobowitz and Michael Chastain
>> talked about the user interface implications of constructing
>> distinct names for the two instances of the constructor:
>>
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2004-07/msg00161.html

Andrew> It's important that we view these as separate problems:

Andrew> - a mechanism for explicitly specifying either of the
Andrew> in-charge or not-in-charge constructor

Andrew> - a mechanism for specifying the "constructor" (meaning all)

Andrew> I think users want both, and would be over the moon, if they
Andrew> just got the first (that's the polite translation).

I'm not sure what that means. But in any case, I'd like to have #1
for a start, because right now I have nothing. (Well, unless I do
what I did before, which is to turn on the "verbose" flag in the
demangler as a hack, so the two constructors and the three destructors
have different names.)

paul