Catchpoint in GDB/MI

[Alain Magloire]

> > 
> > Are you refering to this:
> > 	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-07/msg00191.html
> > 
> > Very informative, thanks.
> > 
> > Reading your exchange, I probably can implement your scheme whithout
> > having to change gdb; setting the breakpoint in __cxa_throw and examining
> > the arguments.
> > 
> > It seems straightforward enough, so why not put it in gdb?  Unless
> > of course I do not grasp the entire complexity of the problem 8-)
> > True it is compiler specific unless the cxxabi becomes more widespread
> > but at least a start.
> 
> No, I was referring to the message a few weeks ago where I checked in
> support for "catch catch".  It doesn't yet parse a type to catch but
> that is easy to add once the FETCH_POINTER_ARGUMENT method is
> available.
> 

Ho! I see it now:
	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-04/msg00507.html

Very cool! indeed.

>  It doesn't yet parse a type to catch but
> that is easy to add once the FETCH_POINTER_ARGUMENT method is
> available.

Darn!! so close .. 8)
Any ETA ?

It will probably need the MI/wrappers too.

Thanks for the pointers, lots of things to chew on.