Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution

Michael Snyder
2005-05-23T18:19:18Z

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:16:29 -0700
>>From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>>
>> > Sounds like a very useful feature. However, I think we need to
>> > support giving meaningful names to bookmarks, since a (more or less
>> > arbitrary) number used by the target is going to lack any mnemonic
>> > value.
>>
>>How about counting numbers, like we do with breakpoints?
>
>
> That might be okay as well, but I consider the method of numbering
> breakpoints as not an ideal one, either. It's impossible to manage
> more than 3 breakpoints without "info breakpoints". More mnemonic
> names could have allowed us to know what breakpoint we need to use
> without consulting the table displayed by "info breakpoints".

OK, then maybe we should make this a general feature -- add a
name field for breakpoints, tracepoints, checkpoint/bookmarks,
and in general such things as we have such lists for. Looking
ahead, people may one day want to give names to threads, or
even sets-of-threads.