[PATCH, doc RFA] Split create-breakpoint! into make-breakpoint, register-breakpoint!

Ludovic Courtès ludo@gnu.org
Wed Jun 4 08:29:00 GMT 2014


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:

>> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:53:48 -0700
>> 
>> In keeping with the splitting of object creation and registration into
>> two separate pieces, this does the same for breakpoints.
>> "Consistency Is Good".
>> 
>> There hasn't been an FSF release of gdb+guile yet so I think it's ok
>> to remove create-breakpoint! here.
>
> OK for the documentation part, but is delete-breakpoint a better name
> than breakpoint-delete?.

I prefer ‘delete-breakpoint!’.

> A question: how does one discard breakpoint objects so that they no
> longer exist?  It seems that breakpoint-delete! only "deregisters" the
> breakpoint, but there's no way to undo the effect of the
> create-breakpoint procedure.

They just get garbage collected eventually.

Ludo’.



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