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Re: [MI tracepoints 5/9] -break-passcount
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 19:23:22 Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> Tom> It is odd to have a command named -break-passcount that can't actually
> Tom> be used on breakpoints
>
> Volodya> It can -- just not on all kinds of breakpoints.
>
> Ok. Maybe you could explain how -break-passcount and -break-after are
> different, without referring to "tracepoints" as something separate from
> "breakpoints".
-break-after specifies how many initial hits of the breakpoint are to be
ignored.
-break-passcount, ideally, after how many execution of breakpoint commands
they stop being executed (and breakpoint becomes silently ignored)
Thanks,
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Vladimir Prus
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