Re: SET BREAK/CALL equiv. on gdb

[Paul Gilliam]

address@hidden wrote on 09/14/2004 11:44:33 
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> > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:24:56 -0400
> > From: Michael Chastain <address@hidden>
> > Cc: 
> > 
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > > There is a very useful feature of the DEC(RIP!) VMS debugger which
> > > will do a break on every function call.  Is there any equivalent in
> > > gdb, short of using 'info function', parsing the output to get a 
list
> > > of all functions in the code and then generating separate break
> > > instructions for them all?  Needless to say, this is very tedious...
> > 
> > Alas, no, there isn't.
> 
> I think "rbreak ." should do the trick.
> 
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All most.  It would be nice if it where possible to manage all those 
break-points together.  One 'disable' for the whole bunch.  Of course the 
user could "rbreak .", note the numbers of the first new breakpoint and 
the last, then use that range: "disable <n>-<m>" (is that right syntax?).

Maybe what we want is to be able to name (automatically?) a range of 
breakpoints.  Something like:

gdb> rbreak .
bp group "functionsBP" is 2-234
gdb> disable functionsBP
breakpoints 2-234 disabled
gdb> 

Just a thought.


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