Re: MI: output of -break-insert and -break-watch

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-17T13:56:37Z

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:37:21PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> The output of -break-insert and -break-watch currently looks like this:
>
> ^done,bkpt={number="1",......
>
> and
>
> ^done,wpt={number="2",.......
>
> What is exactly the point of using different field names: "bkpt" and "wpt"?
> This makes it impossible to get the number of set breakpoint in a uniform
> fashion -- I need to have some conditional on the type of breakpoint, or
> add logic that checks if "bkpt" or "wpt" is present in reply.

I don't get it. Why is this a problem? It sounds to me like the only
reason this would be awkward would be limitations of your front end.
If you've done -break-insert you should expect a bkpt response, if
you've done -break-watch you should expect a wpt response.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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