From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Faster stepping amidst breakpoints
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D485476.4040809@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110201032338.GI2384@adacore.com>
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> As far as I can remember (you know how much GDB development I do
>> nowadays), the only risks were if GDB crashed and left the application
>> with breakpoints inserted. Of course, I'm in favor of GDB not
>> crashing.
>
> I see this as an acceptable outcome of a debugger crash. I am guessing
> that in most cases, people debug their program, and then want it killed,
> so leaving the inferior behind with breakpoints inserted won't matter
> much
It would matter if you were debugging a live real-world app...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-22 15:06 Maxim Grigoriev
2011-01-24 8:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-01-24 21:08 ` Maxim Grigoriev
2011-01-31 7:47 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-31 15:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-02-01 3:23 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-01 18:44 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2011-02-03 4:55 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-02 17:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-02-03 4:46 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-13 15:17 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-02-14 3:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-14 10:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-02-01 15:12 ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-03 22:54 ` Maxim Grigoriev
2011-02-04 16:06 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-04 19:32 ` Maxim Grigoriev
2011-02-04 16:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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