Re: [MI] -break-delete with several breakpoints

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:08:50PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that right now, both -break-delete and -break-disable
> commands accept several breakpoint ids, like:
> 
> 	-break-disable 1 2 3
> 
> This behaviour comes almost by accident, and is not documented anywhere.
> The question is -- should we document it and add tests, or should we
> declare this behaviour does not exist?
> 
> I think that most of the time, making use of this behaviour will require
> explicit code in the frontend, and the question is if that makes sense.
> Say, for -var-update accepting a list of variable object might be good idea,
> since the number of variable object can be significant, and they are updated
> on each step. For deleting and disabling breakpoints, I'm actually not sure.
> Typically, there are few breakpoints and wholesale delete is not common,
> so it's not worth optimizing for.
> 
> Opinions?

The only case I can think that would be nice is something like,
  -break-disable -all

Bob Rossi