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Re: [patch][python] Add breakpoint support.
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
Joel> I almost did implement things that way, and it's certainly better
Joel> than nothing. Maybe I'm letting best be the enemy of good, but there
Joel> are issues with a pure CLI script approach that a user cannot control.
Joel> For instance, what if one of the breakpoints now fails? A CLI script
Joel> would abort early, leaving some of the breakpoints not restored.
Joel> If some of the breakpoints were in DSOs that only get loaded at runtime,
Joel> should they be created as pending? I can't remember what the default
Joel> is when from_tty is not set... I like the python approach because it
Joel> allows us to provide a more configurable approach than a pure CLI script
Joel> would give us.
FWIW the existing "save breakpoints" command just writes out a script
that can be "source"d. We just punted on all those problems --
definitely not ideal.
Tom