Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:16:29 -0700
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> >
> > > Sounds like a very useful feature.  However, I think we need to
> > > support giving meaningful names to bookmarks, since a (more or less
> > > arbitrary) number used by the target is going to lack any mnemonic
> > > value.
> >
> > How about counting numbers, like we do with breakpoints?
>
>
> That might be okay as well, but I consider the method of numbering
> breakpoints as not an ideal one, either.  It's impossible to manage
> more than 3 breakpoints without "info breakpoints".  More mnemonic
> names could have allowed us to know what breakpoint we need to use
> without consulting the table displayed by "info breakpoints".

OK, then maybe we should make this a general feature -- add a
name field for breakpoints, tracepoints, checkpoint/bookmarks,
and in general such things as we have such lists for.  Looking
ahead, people may one day want to give names to threads, or
even sets-of-threads.