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Re: [RFA/RFC] Report the original location specification for a breakpoint.


 > > It's used by "info breakpoints".
 > 
 > What's "it" above?

ui_out_field_string always outputs to both MI and CLI, and this part of the
code is traversed by "info breakpoints" (and "-break-list").  By comparison,
it's also traversed by "-break-insert" but _not_ by "break".

 > Anyway, it appears that the field indeed gets output in CLI mode, so I'll
 > adjust my patch not to do that.
 > 
 > >  
 > >  > > This definitely needs documentation to go in.  I can't say this
 > >  > > enough.  Undocumented fields in the MI output might as well not exist.
 > > 
 > > There are already many other fields that aren't documented, e.g.,
 > > pending, what, cond, ignore etc.  In fact the MI output of -break-insert
 > > is very variable.
 > 
 > Are you volunteering to document that?

No, I'm just doing a reality check.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob


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