[RFC/RFA?] Should break FILE:LINENO skip prologue?

Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
Thu Jan 10 21:49:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:45 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:04:55PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > Don't forget my argument about prologue initializations.
> > Sometimes those involve function calls.  A user might very
> > well want to stop AFTER some of those function calls, but
> > BEFORE others, so he could step into them.
> > 
> > Especially in C++, where some of them would be constructors.
> 
> This argument doesn't apply; local variable initializations are not
> part of the function prologue.  GCC will attribute them to the lines
> on which they were written.  Only setting up the stack frame and
> saving incoming arguments to the stack are part of the prologue.

In that event, my concerns are much alleviated.
;-)




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