From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2141 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2006 17:54:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 1963 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jan 2006 17:54:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:54:28 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD27548CD97; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:54:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09299-01-7; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:54:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dhcp10.gnat.com [205.232.38.232]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5F848CC1C; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:54:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43CA8C51.1040704@adacore.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:54:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Anderson CC: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] multiple breakpoints from FILE:LINE References: <200601151736.k0FHapQB157574@quasar.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200601151736.k0FHapQB157574@quasar.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00125.txt.bz2 David Anderson wrote: >The multiple breakpoints due-to-inlining discussion has >mentioned 20 or 21 breakpoints. > >What if there are 200 or 2000 or 20000 or more inlining sites >of one function? > > For me, the case of inlining is very different from the case of an Ada instantiation or from overloading. I find it hard to imagine wanting to breakpoint one particular inline instance. In fact it really seems conceptually wrong, whether a function is inlined or not is an implementation detail that should not affect debugging at all. >A breakpoint listing won't be very usable either, whether of >2000 entries or one entry with 2000 break addresses. Will it? > >[Sorry, no proposal here. Just raising the issue.] >David Anderson > >