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Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]


> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:55:34 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> 
> On the infrastructure side we will be able to have an "impl_breakpoint"
> (short for implementation; better naming ideas?)

It looks to me that your impl_breakpoint is simply a linked list of
addresses we watch and a few flags.  So perhaps we shouldn't introduce
two kinds of breakpoints, but instead call that list something
entirely different, like bp_data (for ``breakpoint data'').

> Thoughts?  Comments on the overall approach?  OK?

I think the direction is correct.  Thanks for raising the issue and
for working on it.

Putting on my documentation maintainer's hat, may I suggest that this
project also tries to improve the documentation of our breakpoint
handling in gdbint.texinfo, at least to some degree?  IMHO it's a
shame that breakpoints, _the_ most central facility of any debugger,
are documented so poorly.

TIA


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