[RFC]: new set breakpoint pending and show breakpoint pending commands

[Jeff Johnston]

Double Ping ...

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Ping...[excluding Eli who graciously reviewed the doc change]
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> Jeff Johnston wrote:
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>> The following patch adds a setting to control how gdb creates pending 
>> breakpoints.  At Andrew's suggestion, I have made the setting a 
>> subsetting of breakpoint so future breakpoint settings will all be 
>> grouped together.
>>
>> The setting is an auto boolean and has three settings: on, off, and 
>> auto.  The default behavior is auto which is the current default 
>> behavior of querying before setting a pending breakpoint.  The on 
>> setting causes pending breakpoints to be created automatically without 
>> prompting and the off setting causes no pending breakpoints to be 
>> created.  The off setting causes an error to occur which matches the 
>> previous behavior Andrew was seeing with regard to scripts.
>>
>> I have included a doc patch but will wait on posting a change to 
>> pending.exp until everyone is ok with the interface.  A change is not 
>> required to make pending.exp work, it would just exercise the new 
>> functionality.  I have tested the new settings manually.
>>
>> Ok?
>>
>> -- Jeff J.
>>
>> gdb/ChangeLog:
>>
>> 2004-02-10  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
>>
>>         * breakpoint.c (pending_break_support): New setting variable.
>>         (break_command_1): Account for pending_break_support setting
>>         when creating pending breakpoints.
>>         (set_breakpoint_cmd, show_breakpoint_cmd): New functions.
>>         (_initialize_breakpoint): Add "set breakpoint pending" and
>>         "show breakpoint pending" commands.
>>
>> doc/ChangeLog:
>>
>> 2004-02-10  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
>>
>>         * gdb.texinfo (breakpoints): Add information about the
>>         new "set breakpoint pending" and "show breakpoint pending"
>>         commands.
>>
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