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Re: [WIP] pending breakpoint support
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:57:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: [WIP] pending breakpoint support
- References: <3FBAC14D.4060002@redhat.com> <20031119150659.GA14955@nevyn.them.org> <3FBBFD90.8080106@redhat.com> <3FBE95D3.4000300@redhat.com>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:46:43PM -0500, J. Johnston wrote:
> I tried leaving the breakpoint around to allow for "break in all shared
> libs" but that experiment fell flat because it ended up creating the same
> breakpoint multiple times as each shared library gets loaded (e.g. it keeps
> finding printf over and over again in libc). This patch still finds the
> first occurrence in a shared library and then deletes the pending
> breakpoint. Are there plans to identify the shared library for a
> breakpoint in the proposed changes?
No concrete plans, but this definitely can and should be addressed
later. I have a couple of ideas but I want to get something
implemented (eventually) before speculating.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer