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From: Dave Trollope <trollope@lucent.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: "Cuthbertson, Reva D." <reva_cuthbertson@hp.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Question regarding setting breakpoints on 'C' labels and the handling of DW_TAG_label in new_symbol() in dwarf2read.c.
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 04:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E85DC9.6040107@lucent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050624031916.GA17083@nevyn.them.org>


I too tried this recently and was disappointed to find it didn't work. 
Heres why I was trying it:

We have a number of source trees where code changes regularly. By using 
a label, we can write generic breakpoint scripts that are source tree 
independant (I.E. Don't need line numbers to place the breakpoint. etc).

Is there an alternative way to do what we are trying to achieve?

Cheers
Dave
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:56:15PM -0700, Cuthbertson, Reva D. wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I was trying to set a breakpoint on a 'C' label in gdb and when I could
>>not do it I tried to find out why.  I noticed a few things and had a few
>>questions.
>>    
>>
>
>Simply, GDB does not support this.  It may have once upon a time, but
>no one has used the feature for years.
>
>
>  
>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-28  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-23 23:57 Cuthbertson, Reva D.
2005-06-24  3:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-28  4:24   ` Dave Trollope [this message]
2005-07-28  6:13     ` Monika Chaddha
2005-07-28 12:54     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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