Re: Is it possible to save breakpoints to a file?

[RT <mfoc73@dsl.pipex.com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"RT" == RT  <mfoc73@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>>If you are using the insight GUI for gdb, that will save your breakpoints
>>>for you as part of the project preferences.  It writes them into .gdbinit
>>>automatically and reloads them next time you're debugging the same
>>>executable.
> 
> 
> RT> Which makes life rather difficult if you have a break set in a shared
> RT> library. If you reply 'yes' by mistake when Insight asks if you want
> RT> to make the break pending on the library load, then gdb will rapidly
> RT> crash.
> 
> I don't know if this is in the gdb bug database; it should be.

I haven't looked at this in detail. I suspect the problem is that 
Insight is no longer actively maintained, and so it's difficult to get a 
version of insight that uses the current gdb.

There's no point filing bugs that are Insight-specific; there's no one 
to work on them. A trivial licensing problem has lead to gdb having no 
usable GUI (that I know of, anyway; and I've used both ddd and insight). 
If anyone at the FSF knows of a way to debug multi-threaded 
shared-library apps without a GUI, then I'd be really pleased to hear 
from them. And, if I don't hear from them, I guess that they'll agree 
that gdb is an 80's dinosaur, and it's time to put it to bed.

- Richard