Setting a breakpoint at a line number and character offset

[andy_westken]

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?

>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.

if(condition) function1() else function2();

whereas

if(condition)
    function1()
else
    function2();

is debuggable!
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