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Re: How to setup a breakpoint on constructor


On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:09:23PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:54:28 -0400
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > 
> > FYI, I implemented this once.  The users who tried it didn't like it at
> > all.
> 
> Did they tell why they didn't like it?

(A) It was an ugly interface change to work around an internal
limitation, and they needed to retrain users to it.

(B) It exposes the difference between complete and base constructors,
which is an implementation detail of the C++ ABI that most users don't
understand.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz


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