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Re: PR8554: New command to save breakpoints to a file
On Friday 09 April 2010 14:23:31, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > Pedro> The new breakpoint_ops->print_recreate method implementation for
> > Pedro> all catchpoints is always mostly a simplified version of
> > Pedro> breakpoint_ops->print_mention method.
> >
> > Could you enlighten me on a historical (?) point? Why is it that some
> > kinds of breakpoints have methods like this and some do not? Is this an
> > incomplete transition, or an intentional design choice?
>
> I think the former. breakpoint_ops was added initialy for some
> catchpoints in 2003. I wasn't around then.
FWIW, Joel has kindly made fork/vfork catchpoints use the breakpoint_ops, but
this was only in 2008.
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-10/msg00148.html
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Sergio