[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #9709: Add more options for program flow control
- From: "anevilyak" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:15:49 -0000
#9709: Add more options for program flow control
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Reporter: anevilyak | Owner: anevilyak
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/Debugger | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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Currently, flow control is limited to run, step over, step into, step out,
and breakpoints/watchpoiknts. In addition to these, it would also be nice
to have a few more interactive options, such as being able to point to a
line of code with the mouse cursor and asking to run to that point. The
implemention shouldn't be that complex either, as this in effect simply
necessitates setting a temporary breakpoint at said source location.
Another related but more complex feature that might be nice would be the
ability to change the flow of control to a particular statement in a
function, even one that's already been stepped over. The use case would be
if, e.g. one has simply stepped over, and the return value was unexpected,
so it's desired to execute said line again with a Step Into in order to
understand why. This gets more complicated to implement however, since it
may potentially mean changing the stack pointer and other cpu state
attributes besides just the current instruction.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9709>
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