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Re: RFC: The Constructor Breakpoint Issue

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
Cc: David Lecomber <david at streamline-computing dot com>,patches <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:04:17 -0400
Subject: Re: RFC: The Constructor Breakpoint Issue
References: <1097714229.11117.99.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1097847699.1773.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041015145144.GB25188@nevyn.them.org> <1098277715.628.20.camel@delmo.priv.wark.uk.streamline-computing.com> <vt23c09js6e.fsf@zenia.home>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:00:25AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> The line number lookup code actually looks for "best" matches, not
> just exact matches; see symtab.c:find_line_common.  Preserving that
> behavior will require a bit of care.
> 
> The downside that comes to mind is that this approach requires GDB to
> always traverse the full linetable, instead of stopping as soon as it
> finds an exact match, as it does now.

I think the data structures involved will have to change to do this, or
it will just be too painful.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz

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