Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

I would be careful to stay away from turning "logically" specified 
breakpoints (by which I mean specified on function name or source 
location) into addresses to the user.  Even between rerunnings of the 
same executable a library's load address can shift, causing the address 
to move.  gdb can probably still make the equivalency between the 
breakpoints - most slides are rigid, for instance.  But the address 
doesn't show this.  I would use something simble like 5a, 5b or 
whatever...

Jim

On Oct 16, 2003, at 9:17 AM, gdb-patches-digest-help@sources.redhat.com 
wrote:

> > From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:32:57 -0400
> >
> > Just occurred to me that maybe the user sometimes would want to set a
> > breakpoint in just one particular instance of an inlined function, we
> > should still allow that.
>
> How about the following?
>
> (gdb) break inline_foo
> Breakpoint 5 set at inline_foo, which has multiple locations.
> Say "info breakpoint 5" for more details.
> (gdb) info break 5
> Num Type          Enb Address    What
> 5   sw breakpoint  y  0x8040222  inlined into foo
> 5   sw breakpoint  y  0x8040822  inlined into bar
> 5   sw breakpoint  y  0x8040852  inlined into boring_loop
> (gdb) delete 5 *0x8040852
>
> > I.e. should setting the multiple breakpoints
> > be the default?
>
> I think this is the best default, yes.
>
> Alternatively, we could show all possible addresses where the
> requested breakpoint coulod be set and ask the user to select which
> ones she wants, like this:
>
> (gdb) break inline_foo
> Function inline_foo is inlined into multiple locations:
>   Address    Location
>   0x8040222  inlined into foo
>   0x8040822  inlined into bar
>   0x8040852  inlined into boring_loop
> Please use "break *address" to set breakpoints at one or more of these
> (gdb) break *0x8040822 *0x8040822
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