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Re: RFC: next/finish/etc -vs- exceptions

From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:15:40 +0000
Subject: Re: RFC: next/finish/etc -vs- exceptions
References: <m38w2a236l.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20101125075847.GA19270@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <m3fwuisqxb.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20101130170215.GA4309@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
Reply-to: pmuldoon at redhat dot com

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

>> I thought that gdb did not support nested inferior-control commands like
>> this.
>> 
>> It would be a nice feature.
>
> I was thinking Phil was coding something like that with Python commands
> attached to breakpoints.  It would need more fixes but I was just pointing
> out an incompatibility also in this code.
>
> With current GDB it seems OK to me.

Conditional breakpoints in Python that evaluate a Python function to
determine whether or not to stop.  Though there is no reason why in the
future what you describe could not happen with commands attached to a
breakpoint.  

Cheers,

Phil

References:
- Re: RFC: next/finish/etc -vs- exceptions
  - From: Jan Kratochvil
- Re: RFC: next/finish/etc -vs- exceptions
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: RFC: next/finish/etc -vs- exceptions
  - From: Jan Kratochvil

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