From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19334 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2004 14:21:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19326 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2004 14:21:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 16 Jul 2004 14:21:58 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1BlTaL-0001x8-Qp; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:21:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:27:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: mec.gnu@mindspring.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rolandz@poczta.fm Subject: Re: How to setup a breakpoint on constructor Message-ID: <20040716142113.GB7311@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , mec.gnu@mindspring.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rolandz@poczta.fm References: <20040715113103.E988A4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <20040715135427.GA3545@nevyn.them.org> <2914-Fri16Jul2004140923+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2914-Fri16Jul2004140923+0300-eliz@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00207.txt.bz2 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 > > > > 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