Re: Debugging GNU Emacs on MS Windows / getting control back to gdb

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alain Schneble <address@hidden>
> CC: <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:06:36 +0200
> 
> > And even that might not be enough for a frequently called function.
> > Then you need to make the breakpoint conditional on some input values,
> > or the value of point, or whatever else can filter out hits you don't
> > want.
> 
> But that was exactly my point, that it is more cumbersome to setup a
> conditional breakpoint.

Nevertheless, it's frequently a necessity.

> Whereas with a process suspension, I only have to set an
> unconditional breakpoint and then continue execution.  Of course,
> this works well only if I know that the next call to the function is
> the one call I'm interested in.

Exactly.  And you can never know that in advance, not with functions
called frequently.