Re: [RFA] fix session breakpoints

[Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>]

Hi (happy '02)

Just a thought, but maybe it would be better to assume that the
executable name ends in "insight" or "gdb", so that "i386-elf-gdb"
and others could be detected as well as just "gdb".

Ian.

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:42:10 -0800 "Martin M. Hunt" <hunt@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 17 December 2001 02:47 pm, Martin M. Hunt wrote:
> > I often use Insight to debug itself. After a few hundred times, things get
> > a bit slow as Insight sets a few hundred breakpoints on info_command and
> > internal_error. So here's a simple patch.  It not only stops these
> > breakpoints from accumulating but will also eliminate them from .gdbtkinit.
> 
> This is a second version of the patch that attempts to check if you are
> debugging gdb with itself before ignoring those breakpoints.  It assumes the
> name of the executable starts with "gdb" or "insight".  Of course this isn't 
> ideal either, but anything else will require GDB changes and IMO will not be 
> worth the effort.
> 
> -- 
> Martin Hunt
> GDB Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> Index: session.tcl
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gdbtk/library/session.tcl,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -u -r1.9 session.tcl
> --- session.tcl	2001/10/28 20:08:39	1.9
> +++ session.tcl	2002/01/02 20:35:20
> @@ -33,11 +33,28 @@
>  proc SESSION_serialize_bps {} {
>    set result {}
>  
> +  set basename [string tolower [file tail $::gdb_exe_name]]
> +  if {[string match "gdb*" $basename] 
> +      || [string match "insight*" $basename]} {
> +    set debugging_gdb 1
> +  } else {
> +    set debugging_gdb 0
> +  }
> +  
>    foreach bp_num [gdb_get_breakpoint_list] {
>      lassign [gdb_get_breakpoint_info $bp_num] file function line_number \
>        address type enabled disposition ignore_count command_list \
>        condition thread hit_count user_specification
>  
> +    # These breakpoints are set when debugging GDB with itself.
> +    # Ignore them so they don't accumulate. They get set again
> +    # by .gdbinit anyway.
> +    if {$debugging_gdb} {
> +      if {$function == "internal_error" || $function == "info_command"} {
> +	continue
> +      }
> +    }
> +    
>      switch -glob -- $type {
>        "breakpoint" -
>        "hw breakpoint" {