[RFC]: Disallow ObjC search when resetting breakpoint.

Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
Thu Nov 6 21:03:00 GMT 2003


Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > > Hmm, not sure about this. Maybe it is the code that follows your new
 > > 'if' in decode_line_1 that should be changed.  Definitely saving more
 > > info in the breakpoints would be helpful.
 > > 
 > > Question: how does this work for overloaded functions in c++?
 > > decode_line_1 calls decode_compounds, which calls find_method, which
 > > calls decode_line_2, which asks the user. I would think a similar
 > > problem arises there. If not, then can we make objc do the same thing
 > > that c++ does?
 > 
 > For C++, the problem doesn't arise.  I think that ObjC's problem is
 > that one of the options is the same as the ambiguous form; C++ can
 > always generate a description of which overloaded function is meant. 
 > Well, except when it can't.
 > 

ah, right.

 > I have some ideas on how to address this, but I haven't even created
 > the branch for it yet :)
 > 

Ok I was hoping you'd say that! :-)
Let's wait then on this.

elena


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 > Daniel Jacobowitz
 > MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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