MI: changing breakpoint location

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Mar 17 00:04:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:07:27PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > Now, I have to delete the old breakpoint and create the new one, which is
>  > workable, but not convenient.
> 
> I don't find a problem with that, but it would be nice if when a program is
> edited and recompiled that GDB could track the line number.  So, for example
> if the breakpoint is on line 10, say, and lines 4 and 5 are deleted, then
> after recompiling and restarting, its on line 8.  I think Visual Stuio has
> this feature.  I have no idea how easy/hard it would be to implement.

BTW, this does make me think about the original request differently; it
does seem a bit awkward to have to delete and recreate breakpoints
every time the user edits a source file.  Maybe it isn't.  I don't
know...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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