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Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]
> This is needed, as otherwize something apparently simple "break strcmp" could result in the user unknowingly setting 1000's of breakpoints.
That's true as it is -- I guess what we have now is that
pop-up menu that says "Which one of these did you mean?"
I presume that when that interface was implemented, we
did not expect it to come up all that often. Now, with
overloaded functions, templates, weird constructors and
so forth, we anticipate that it will come up more often,
so we need a less intrusive interface.
I'd hazard a guess that the current breakpoint interface and mechanism
pre-date GCC's inline support (which is well before GCC's C++ support)!
enjoy,
Andrew