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RE: RFC: implement "catch signal"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Tromey [mailto:tromey@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:32 PM
> To: Jan Kratochvil
> Cc: André Pönitz; gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Marc Khouzam;
> Dodji Seketeli
> Subject: Re: RFC: implement "catch signal"
>
> Jan> I do not know how serious is the backward compatibility of
> Jan> type="catchpoint".
>
> Tom> Me neither.
>
> On irc, André said that at least his front end isn't handling
> catchpoint
> at all. So I would guess that changing this, at least for
> him, would be
> fine.
>
> CCing Marc Khouzam, to get the Eclipse perspective, and Dodji for
> nemiver.
>
> The background is that right now all catchpoints report
> type="catchpoint" in MI; but it seems better to me to make this report
> the real catchpoint type, e.g., type="catch-load" or something like
> that.
>
> The alternative is something like type="catchpoint",catch-type="load".
Eclipse looks for 'type' to start with "catchpoint", so having something
like type="catchpoint-load" would be backwards-compatible in our case.
I've added Mikhail Khodjainants who has recently worked on synchronizing
Eclipse and GDB 'breakpoints' but ran into serious problems for catchpoints.
> I sometimes think we should have a special "MI discuss" list
> just so we
> can work these things out without requiring all the MI
> consumer authors
> to filter through the main lists. Just CCing a couple people whose
> names I remember isn't very good... :)
gdb-mi@source...
could be a good thing to have.
>
> Tom
>