From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1602 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2003 01:32:47 -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 1595 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2003 01:32:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2003 01:32:47 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8602B29; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:32:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E84F7BB.3040908@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:32:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Jim Ingham , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb Digest 26 Mar 2003 19:03:48 -0000 Issue 1129 References: <672C9F08-5FC2-11D7-B2F4-00039379E320@apple.com> <3E84D16F.5020304@redhat.com> <3E84D706.3060708@redhat.com> <20030328235634.GA5920@nevyn.them.org> <3E84EDA6.1040302@redhat.com> <20030329005823.GA7072@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00400.txt.bz2 > > OK, two levels. We still need to think about the interface for the top > level though. You want to be able to specify the set in some way... yes. > This sort of design is not my strong point. > > >> >Does anyone know how other debuggers handle this? I'm sure we're not >> >the first but it's been ages since I used a non-GDB debugger for >> >anything. > >> >> The model I'm describing lifted from a book, the author of which was >> involved in borland's debugger. > > > Yes, I've heard of the book. Does it cover things like inlined > functions? It does, but it `paints with a broad brush'. Don't expect a technical cook book. Rather something that sets a good direction and identifies the basic issues. I think you already know: breakpoint on an in-line function means finding all instances and then adding a physical breakpoint for each. Andrew