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Re: How to set a breakpoint in file, which name has spaces?
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:48:43 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Nikolay.Molchanov@Sun.COM, gdb@sourceware.org
>
> > Daniel, should we update the manual in some way, or is this a bug that
> > should be fixed?
>
> That's a good question :-) This all comes down to decode_line_1. The
> question of whether to change its parsing or document its quirks is
> beyond me, I'm afraid. I'm reluctant to try touching that code.
Okay, I will document it, then.
> I wonder if, for some major version bump, we should document a new
> syntax for referring to source locations and implement it from
> scratch?
That sounds like a good idea. Joel, perhaps you could kindly remind
us about this when ``some major version bump'' will be around the
corner.