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Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:41:34 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:45:18PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
>> From that perspective, I think a breakpoint is a breakpoint. To
>> the user it represents a location in the *source* code. The fact
>> that this may translate to several locations in the machine code is
>> "under the hood", so to speak.
...
>> So for instance, we might say that *this* is the breakpoint, and if
>> you want to know, *these* are the breakpoint's *locations*.
> Quite happy :) This suggests struct breakpoint and struct bp_location
> (or maybe even bp_element, which is clearer for watchpoints, but less
> clear overall).
But they're both locations - one kind of location is in the source
code, and one is in the machine code. So I would like to have the
word 'source' in the user breakpoint structure.
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com