[WIP] pending breakpoint support

[J. Johnston]

I have been hacking around with supporting "future-break" functionality (note, I 
said "hacking").  I have seen past discussion regarding the issue and the 
requirement to add functionality to the current breakpoint command as opposed to 
creating a separate command.

For my change, I wrappered the call to parse_breakpoint_sals() to catch any 
error.  If the call fails, then I simply give the user the option as marking it 
as pending.  I then make a fake breakpoint with a special enable_state of 
bp_shlib_pending.  I also save the original breakpoint command as the 
addr_string plus some needed state to recreate the command at a later time.  I 
attempted to have any original condition parsed but it isn't used in my current 
design as I end up reparsing the original command from scratch anyway.

When we are loading shared libraries, the function 
re_enable_breakpoints_in_shlibs() gets called.  I have added code in there to 
attempt to reparse any pending break command.  If successful, a new breakpoint 
is created by basically reissing the command with saved state accounted for. 
After creating the new breakpoint(s), I delete the pending place holder breakpoint.

Ideally, I would liked to have reused the same breakpoint structure that was 
initially allocated but in my code there still was the possibility of one 
command generating multiple breakpoints so I took the aforementioned strategy. 
I have been informed that the newer breakpoint model will eliminate that problem 
and I should be able to reuse the breakpoint number, etc...

A problem I didn't solve yet has to do with the issuing of error messages for 
pending and disabled shared-library breakpoints when the reenablement is 
attempted and it fails.  This can be very annoying when you have a large number 
of shared libraries loaded each time (e.g. Eclipse).

I have included a gdb session below along with the patch I used so folks can see 
how it currently works.

What I would like to do is get some discussion going:

   1. Is the user interface on the right track?
   2. What gotchas do I need to think about?
   3. Any design recommendations for implementing this better?

-- Jeff J.

/../gdb -nw a.out
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(gdb) b printf
Function "printf" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending? (y or n) y
Breakpoint 1 (printf) pending.
(gdb) info break
Num Type           Disp Enb Address            What
1   breakpoint     keep n   <PENDING>          printf
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 2 at 0x4000000000000702: file hello.c, line 9.
(gdb) info break
Num Type           Disp Enb Address            What
1   breakpoint     keep n   <PENDING>          printf
2   breakpoint     keep y   0x4000000000000702 in main at hello.c:9
(gdb) run
Starting program: 
/to/scratch/jjohnstn/gdb-patches/future-break/build/ia64/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/a.out 

Pending breakpoint <printf> resolved
Breakpoint 3 at 0x20000000000ec5e0

Breakpoint 2, main () at hello.c:9
9	   x = printf ("hello world\n");
(gdb) info break
Num Type           Disp Enb Address            What
2   breakpoint     keep y   0x4000000000000702 in main at hello.c:9
	breakpoint already hit 1 time
3   breakpoint     keep y   0x20000000000ec5e0 <printf+48>
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Breakpoint 3, 0x20000000000ec5e0 in printf () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1
(gdb)
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