Re: Catchpoint in GDB/MI

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:21:41PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> > > 
> > > Are you refering to this:
> > > 	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-07/msg00191.html
> > > 
> > > Very informative, thanks.
> > > 
> > > Reading your exchange, I probably can implement your scheme whithout
> > > having to change gdb; setting the breakpoint in __cxa_throw and examining
> > > the arguments.
> > > 
> > > It seems straightforward enough, so why not put it in gdb?  Unless
> > > of course I do not grasp the entire complexity of the problem 8-)
> > > True it is compiler specific unless the cxxabi becomes more widespread
> > > but at least a start.
> > 
> > No, I was referring to the message a few weeks ago where I checked in
> > support for "catch catch".  It doesn't yet parse a type to catch but
> > that is easy to add once the FETCH_POINTER_ARGUMENT method is
> > available.
> > 
> 
> Ho! I see it now:
> 	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-04/msg00507.html
> 
> Very cool! indeed.
> 
> >  It doesn't yet parse a type to catch but
> > that is easy to add once the FETCH_POINTER_ARGUMENT method is
> > available.
> 
> Darn!! so close .. 8)
> Any ETA ?

Nope, too much else to do.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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