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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mec.gnu@mindspring.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rolandz@poczta.fm
Subject: Re: How to setup a breakpoint on constructor
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040716142113.GB7311@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2914-Fri16Jul2004140923+0300-eliz@gnu.org>

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:09:23PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:54:28 -0400
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > 
> > FYI, I implemented this once.  The users who tried it didn't like it at
> > all.
> 
> Did they tell why they didn't like it?

(A) It was an ugly interface change to work around an internal
limitation, and they needed to retrain users to it.

(B) It exposes the difference between complete and base constructors,
which is an implementation detail of the C++ ABI that most users don't
understand.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-16 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-15 13:55 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-15 14:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-07-16 11:11   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-16 14:27     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-07-17 10:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-18 19:29 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-19  3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-17 23:17 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-18  5:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-18 18:44   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-07-18 19:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-19  3:22       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-07-19 14:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-17 10:09 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-16 19:59 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-16 22:15 ` Jim Blandy
2004-07-17 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-17 14:54   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-07-15 11:31 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-16 13:17 ` Roland Zerek
2004-07-15 10:30 Roland Zerek

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