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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: drow@mvista.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42921E95.3040105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c55de8$Blat.v2.4$7546d7a0@zahav.net.il>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:16:29 -0700
>>From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>>
>> > 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?
> 
> 
> That might be okay as well, but I consider the method of numbering
> breakpoints as not an ideal one, either.  It's impossible to manage
> more than 3 breakpoints without "info breakpoints".  More mnemonic
> names could have allowed us to know what breakpoint we need to use
> without consulting the table displayed by "info breakpoints".

OK, then maybe we should make this a general feature -- add a
name field for breakpoints, tracepoints, checkpoint/bookmarks,
and in general such things as we have such lists for.  Looking
ahead, people may one day want to give names to threads, or
even sets-of-threads.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-23 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-20 21:16 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21  9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-23 18:19   ` Michael Snyder [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-21 15:53 Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 22:11 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 23:32 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 21:59 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:51 Michael Snyder
2005-05-21  9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 21:44 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:25 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:11 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 19:02 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 21:03   ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 15:49 Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 17:41 ` Dan Shearer
2005-05-20 22:01   ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 22:08     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 22:43       ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21  0:58         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21  1:42           ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21  1:53             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21  1:56               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 15:03                 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21 14:13               ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21 14:23                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 15:04                   ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 20:58 ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:35   ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-19  1:23 Dan Shearer
2005-05-19 13:01 ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-19 13:18   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-19 13:47     ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 10:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 11:37     ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-20 13:18       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 13:36         ` Fabian Cenedese
2005-05-20 13:47           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 22:14         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 12:22     ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 13:19       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 13:14     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 15:40       ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-16 17:47 Dan Shearer
2005-05-16 18:04 ` Dan Shearer
2005-05-20 18:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21  0:05   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-05-21 10:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-21 10:28       ` Russell Shaw
2005-05-21 12:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-21 12:55           ` Russell Shaw
2005-05-21 14:39           ` Russell Shaw
2005-05-21 14:19       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 15:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-21 17:43           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-23 19:39             ` Dan Shearer
2005-05-12 23:08 Michael Snyder
2005-05-13  6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-19 13:46   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-19 18:46     ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-19 19:26       ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 10:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 13:04       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 14:43           ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-20 20:48         ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 20:51           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 20:38     ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 15:05 ` Vladimir Prus
2005-05-20 15:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 18:14     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 18:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 19:27   ` Stan Shebs

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