From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Michael Veksler <mveksler@tx.technion.ac.il>
Cc: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Organization of breakpoint locations
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070219144758.GA32582@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D9B6EA.6050309@tx.technion.ac.il>
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 04:40:42PM +0200, Michael Veksler wrote:
> I always thought (speculated) that breakpoint removal was to simplify
> things like
>
> (gdb) x /i $pc
>
> Where you don't want to see the INT instruction, but the original value.
Some parts of GDB won't work if we leave breakpoints in. But, it's
not hard to fix - we have the right helper routines for it nowadays.
Joel made some changes like this in the last year.
> GDB crash does sound like another reason.
> Being curios, I'd like to ask what was the original reason for
> this behavior? Does anyone know? I never saw it documented anywhere.
I don't know either; I'm just guessing. It may have just been easiest
at the time and no one came back to think about it later.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-19 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-19 11:57 Thomas Neumann
2007-02-19 12:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-19 14:40 ` Thomas Neumann
2007-02-19 14:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-19 14:54 ` Michael Veksler
2007-02-19 21:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-02-20 4:46 ` Thomas Neumann
2007-02-20 10:26 ` Thomas Neumann
2007-02-21 17:05 ` Michael Snyder
2007-02-21 1:53 ` Michael Snyder
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