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Re: [BUG:MI] -break-list doesn't list multiple breakpoints
- From: Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs dot msu dot su>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:35:38 +0300
- Subject: Re: [BUG:MI] -break-list doesn't list multiple breakpoints
- References: <18310.38708.144719.374963@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> I have previously mentioned this in
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-11/msg00276.html
>
> breakpoint.c currently has:
Yes, we had this conversation before...
> if (b->loc
> && (b->loc->next || !b->loc->enabled))
> && !ui_out_is_mi_like_p (uiout))
> {
> struct bp_location *loc;
> int n = 1;
> for (loc = b->loc; loc; loc = loc->next, ++n)
> print_one_breakpoint_location (b, loc, n, last_addr);
> }
>
> where presumably the !ui_out_is_mi_like_p (uiout) bit is there because the
> testsuite failed without it, i.e., so that -break-insert only reports one
> breakpoint (the CLI command "break" doesn't use
> print_one_breakpoint_location).
No, merely because I had no time to design MI interface.
> On a more general note, in Emacs, I just just use "info break" after every
> user
> command and will probably just use "-break-list" in the future. I won't
> use the output of -break-insert, although some front end might be clever
> enough to do this and that presumably was the intention when the command
> was written. In that case it might be necessary to include all the
> locations in a multiple breakpoint in the output.
>
> Support for CLI in frontends can only be dropped after MI is fully
> functional, it makes no sense to to do it before.
I am not sure about your point. Clearly, MI needs some work still,
but it's true for several years already.
- Volodya