[RFC] multiple breakpoints from FILE:LINE

Andrew STUBBS andrew.stubbs@st.com
Fri Jan 13 14:17:00 GMT 2006


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> How about something like
> 
>     break something.adb:12 if SOME_CONDITION
> 
> where SOME_CONDITION is something we should invent to specify the
> instance where we want to put the single breakpoint?  This has the
> advantage of using an existing syntax, especially if the condition
> could be made to use some convenience variable.  By contrast, what you
> suggest modifies the syntax of a location specification; do we really
> want that?

Not that it makes any real difference but ...

To me that looks like it will set a break point everywhere and then 
check at runtime if it is the right one.

Now I know you weren't thinking of doing that, but that's what the 
condition normally means.

It may also make setting a real condition more tricky.



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