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Re: [MI tracepoints 5/9] -break-passcount


On Tuesday 16 March 2010 18:37:13 Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> Tom> Doesn't the use of get_tracepoint make it tracepoint-specific?
> Tom> Or is this changed somewhere in the patch series?
> 
> Volodya> I was confused. This command remains specific to tracepoint, there's
> Volodya> no patch (yet?) that merges -break-passcount and -break-after and
> Volodya> in fact, it's probably not a good idea.
> 
> In that case, shouldn't the new command be called -trace-passcount, not
> -break-passcount?

I am not sure. Given that tracepoints are special kind of breakpoint now,
I'd rather have -break-passcount, with -trace command reserversed for
overall control of tracing. After all, mixing -break-insert -a with
later -trace-passcount may be confusing.

Thanks,

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Vladimir Prus
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