On Tuesday 26 July 2011 05:47:15 andy_westken wrote: > Hi > > I apologise if this question has been answered elsewhere, but my web > searches were swamped by noise... > > Is is possible to get gdb to set a breakpoint at a line number and a > character offset (or column) on the line?
Only a line number AFAIK. Setting it at an actual column offset would be challenging. > > From what I understand, this is not possible (at least for Ubuntu and > GnuWin32 versions of the debugger). But I wanted to cross-check before > using this to justify an item in some coding conventions. > > Thanks, Andy > > P.S. My contention is that code of the following form is intrinsically > evil, from a debugging perspective. Some might argue the corollary that debugging is evil from a coding perspective :-). > > if(condition) function1() else function2(); I guess you could do something like: break function1 condition 1 (condition) > > whereas > > if(condition) > function1() > else > function2(); > > is debuggable!
