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Re: Save the length of inserted breakpoints
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:59:17 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> I'm way tired of discussing this patch, however. I'd like to remind
> the audience that I'm not trying to clean up the target breakpoint
> interface; I was trying to fix a nasty debugging problem for ARM
> where it's perfectly obvious to the user what mode some code is in,
> but GDB gets lost. My first version was too limited to the problem
> case and was dismissed as hopelessly ugly. So I cleaned it up,
> added some abstraction, and now it's "obfuscated". Every time I
> have to overhaul an interface to fix a bug, I get a little bit
> more frustrated. The bug took an hour, and this has taken days.
And therein lies the real problem.
Mark, is your objection really so serious as to leave this bug
unfixed rather than fixed as Daniel suggested?
If it is, I'd like to hear opinions of others; if you are the only one
who objects, I'd recommend to commit the patch over your objections.