RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]

[Michael Snyder]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>
>>
>> > This is needed, as otherwize something apparently simple "break 
>> strcmp" could result in the user unknowingly setting 1000's of 
>> breakpoints.
>>
>> That's true as it is -- I guess what we have now is that
>> pop-up menu that says "Which one of these did you mean?"
>> I presume that when that interface was implemented, we
>> did not expect it to come up all that often.  Now, with
>> overloaded functions, templates, weird constructors and
>> so forth, we anticipate that it will come up more often,
>> so we need a less intrusive interface. 
> 
> 
> I'd hazard a guess that the current breakpoint interface and mechanism 
> pre-date GCC's inline support (which is well before GCC's C++ support)!

If you mean the dups-list with prompt, I make it 1993 at latest.
Hey, a 10-year-old interface!