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Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3]
- From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
- Cc: drow at mvista dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:33:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3]
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:18:26 -0500
From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
Ok, how about the accompanying patch?
-- Jeff J.
2004-02-02 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Add information about new pending breakpoint support.
Thanks. Is it possible to modify the wording so that it doesn't use
passive tense so much? I'm told by native English speakers that
passive is BAD...
For example, this:
If a breakpoint location cannot be found, you are queried to see if
you wish to make the breakpoint pending on a future shared-library
load.
could be rephrased like this:
If a breakpoint location cannot be found, GDB queries you if you
wish to make the breakpoint pending on ...
Etc., you get the point.
TIA
Is the attached ok to commit?
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.135
diff -u -r1.135 NEWS
--- NEWS 5 Feb 2004 19:56:33 -0000 1.135
+++ NEWS 5 Feb 2004 21:31:35 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
*** Changes since GDB 6.0:
+* Pending breakpoint support
+
+Support has been added to allow specifying breakpoints in shared libraries
+that have not yet been loaded. If a breakpoint location cannot be found,
+GDB queries you if you wish to make the breakpoint pending on a
+future shared-library load. If and when GDB resolves the breakpoint symbol,
+the pending breakpoint is removed as one or more regular breakpoints are
+created. Pending breakpoints are very useful for gcj java debugging.
+
* Removed --with-mmalloc
Support for the mmalloc memory manager has been removed, as it