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

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Tue Jan 15 03:57:00 GMT 2008


Hi Michael,

> Joel, if my memory is correct, this is because the "*" is not
> interpreted by the language parser, it is interpreted by the
> linespec parser.

Right. In my mind, the issue was not with the "*", but in determining
for each language if the expression "FUNCTION_NAME" returned the
function address or not. It looks like it is the case for most
languages supported by GDB. The only exceptions apparently are
Ada and SCM.

-- 
Joel



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