Re: How to setup a breakpoint on constructor

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-07-18T05:05:12Z

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 07:11:07AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:52:25 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
> >
> > > Coincidentally that's what the entire discussion of 1:N breakpoints
> > > last year was about but no one has had time to implement it.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > 1:N breakpoints are better than A::A$base(), but it's been 3 years since
> > the ctor-breakpoint issue came up, and we don't have anything at all
> > yet.
>
> So how about setting a breakpoint on all of the places, like Daniel
> suggested?
>
> > But if someone breaks in A::A$base() and then says 'break 1000' to get
> > into the middle of the function (which I do a lot), then they would get
> > the breakpoint in the wrong copy! So even if we disambiguate the
> > names, the 1:N nature of multiple ctors shines through.
>
> Can't we put a breakpoint on all instances in that case as well?

Yes. But this requires a certain amount of user interface design and
implementation hackery that no one has done; every time I tried I got
bogged down in some dependency.

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Daniel Jacobowitz