Re: Pending breakpoints and scripts

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-11T14:47:57Z

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:31:23AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> >>>I'd rather not reverse the question. We could check from_tty at the
> >>>call site, and not set pending breakpoints if no tty...
> >
> >>
> >>Why?
> >
> >
> >Well, how would you word it? It makes more intuitive sense to me to
> >answer 'y' to create something special and 'n' to do nothing, than the
> >other way around.
>
> Something like:
>
> "Discard breakpoint, rather than mark it pending?"
>
> is a guess.

That's why I don't want to reverse the question - I find that really
unintuitive. Perhaps it's just me.

> The real problem here is with batch scripts, the change breaks existing
> script behavior (which is never a good thing).
>
> How about this, we introduce:
> nquery()
> yquery()
> where the default (batch mode, and when return is pressed is n/y
> respectively). We'd need the language police to look over the interface
> but should otherwize be ok.

Works for me.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer