Re: PR8554: New command to save breakpoints to a file

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Thursday 15 April 2010 19:46:15, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > Pedro Alves wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 April 2010 18:51:55, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > > > What about watchpoints?  Do we get all the context info right?
> > > Watchpoints on globals, as right as breakpoints.  Watchpoints on
> > > locals, no, you're just out of luck.  I don't think there's
> > > much to do there; GDB gets rid of those on process start/exit,
> > > so users are used to those not being very "persistanteable".
> > > OTOH, it may be useful to be able to dump watchpoints on locals,
> > > and be able to load them up when you know it's okay, so never
> > > dumping those isn't that great either.  So, IMO, we shouldn't
> > > worry much about those, at least, in this first patch.  :-)  I
> > > could add a note to the manual, perhaps.
> > That's cool.  So what do we do now?  Just skip them?
> > Save the global ones, skip the local ones?
>
> We save them.

Oh -- and on reload, some of them fail?

Shouldn't be difficult to skip saving all of them, but what about
skipping the locals and saving the globals?  Hard?