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Re: [PATCH v2] dynamic printf
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net> writes:
Tom> I thought this approach would break "next"ing over a dprintf location.
Stan> Indeed, thus this part of the introduction to this patch: :-)
I you read the binutils list today you'll see I'm quite off my game.
Sorry about the poor reading comprehension.
Stan> "... Joel previously noted a problem with the "continue" in the
Stan> command list, which is that stepping/nexting over a dprintf becomes a
Stan> continue instead (this is a problem for general breakpoint command
Stan> lists as well). I tinkered with bpstats a bit, but didn't come up
Stan> with a good solution. One possibility might be a new pseudo-command
Stan> for breakpoint command lists, that resumes the program using the same
Stan> proceed() arguments as the command that caused the breakpoint hit."
Yeah, we added the 'stop' machinery to Python to let us deal with this.
One idea would be "continue -hey-dont-break-next"
Stan> If nobody comes up with a good idea here, it should probably be
Stan> documented as a limitation. I wonder if some relatively recent infrun
Stan> tinkering changed the breakpoint command behavior - you'd think
Stan> *somebody* would have bumped into it sometime in the past 20 years...
I've known about it for a long time, I think we all just worked around
it.
Tom