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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:31:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:16:29PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >> It would be an interesting discussion to see how bookmarks could be
> >> incorporated into the gdb framework.
> >
> > Sounds like a very useful feature.  However, I think we need to
> > support giving meaningful names to bookmarks, since a (more or less
> > arbitrary) number used by the target is going to lack any mnemonic
> > value.
> 
> How about counting numbers, like we do with breakpoints?
> 
>     (gdb) get-bookmark
>     Bookmark #1, line 12, foo.c == <quasi-random-identifier>
>     (gdb) continue
>     Breakpoint 5, line 144, grbx.c
>     (gdb) info bookmarks
>     Bookmark   ID    Location
>     1          <###> foo.c line 12
>     (gdb) goto-bookmark 1
>     Line 12, foo.c (bookmark <quasi-random-identifier>)

I think Eli's right... why not let the user give them real names?  We
can give them sequential numbers, too, if we want.  I'd probably end up
naming all my bookmarks "q", cause that's the sort of person I am,
but...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC