GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Mon Jun 23 15:17:00 GMT 2008


>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

>> | * Fix and continue:
>> | 
>> |     Perhaps try to implement this feature through the use of Python.
>> |     For instance, use python to build a return value, and return that.

Nick> Apple GDB already has fix and continue.  Couldn't that be used
Nick> as a reference implementaton?

I didn't take notes on this, but apparently fix-and-continue is kind
of a pain to implement, and AFAICS needs IDE integration to work
properly anyhow.  The Python idea is more of a cute hack than a really
serious thing.

Tom



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