Insight release schedule

Evan Lavelle anti.spam1@dsl.pipex.com
Wed Aug 11 22:01:00 GMT 2004


Keith Seitz wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:08, Duane Ellis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Again - hairbrained... Lots of work... And very radical. But the
>>benifit and/or win would be enormous.
> 
> 
> Radical for gdb maybe, not for me. Not hairbrained, either. This is
> definitely something that Jim Ingham, Martin Hunt, Fernando Nasser, and
> I have talked about many, many times before (long, long ago now, it
> seems).
> 
> FWIW, I've always liked this idea. It would be so much easier for people
> to create custom views of their data/memory/etc. One really neat thing
> that you could do is write some really elaborate breakpoint conditions.
> Image using strcmp [hmph, "string compare" :-)] in a breakpoint
> condition. Lo! How I wish I could have done that trying to chase down
> symtab problems in gdb!

Umm... can't you already do that?
break X::Y if(!strcmp(Z, "wibble"))

Pity about the licence problem. I'm just working up to dumping gdb 
entirely, and spending $900 on totalView, although it seems to have some 
C++ issues.

Evan



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