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 (message from Philippe Waroquiers on Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:27:54 +0200)
Subject: Re: [RFA] Show locno for 'multi location' breakpoint hit msg+conv
 var $bkptno $locno.
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> From: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:27:54 +0200
> 
> > Thanks.  I think this should be an optional feature.  Not everyone is
> > interested in the particular location that breaks.  Having to disable
> > the breakpoints by locations is definitely an annoyance.
> 
> For the GDB CLI, when the above message is displayed, 
> the user can decide to type
>    disable 1
> or
>    disable 1.2
> or can define aliases such as
>    alias bdisable = disable $bkptno
>    alias ldisable = disable $bkptno.$locno
> to disable the complete breakpoint or only the specific location.

This was not clear from the description.  I think we should make it
clear in the manual.

> I might submit a later patch to define the above aliases by default,
> so that disabling the last breakpoint or location will imply only to 
> type 'bd' or 'ld'.
> 
> Similarly, a front end using MI will (by default) just skip the new locno field.
> So, I am not sure to understand what is the annoyance.

I'm not sure everyone will want to see the likes of

  Thread 1 "foobar" hit breakpoint 10.42, some_func () at ...

But that's MO; I'd be interested in opinions of others.