Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Michael Snyder writes:
>
> > Disassemble doesn't share the same syntax/semantics (decode_line_1);
> > it has its own (I think?) -- but you're right, it's another command
> > that takes a source location and "translates" it into a target
> > location.
>
>
> Yeah, we are in agreement here.  My point is that there are
> "source" locations (or whatever we want to call them)
> and "target" locations (or whatever we want to call them).
> We have to go back to the manual and the design stage and separate
> all these out as separate concepts.

OK, yes, agreed.

> mec>   (gdb) break *0x12345678
> ms> Now I don't follow you.  "*0x12345678" isn't a source address.
> ms> Is it?
>
> Ah, I am just saying that this is a user command that is oriented
> towards "target" locations.  So we can't just hide the concept
> of "target" location from people, because that concept is already
> present in the input language.

Oh yes, of course.  I don't mean to make the concept go away,
just not to reveal it (if avoidable) when the user didn't ask.
Just as the user can get the value of a variable without being
told the variable's location -- but can still obtain the location
if desired.