Re: [rfc] Allow watchpoints on inaccessible memory

Jim Blandy
2008-02-29T17:34:03Z

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:25:00AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Here's something I've been meaning to try for ages. Suppose you have
> > a global variable pointing to some dynamically allocated storage, and
> > you want to find writes into that storage. When the pointer isn't
> > initialized you can't even set the watchpoint:
>
> I have updated this patch, simplified, centralized, commented more
> thoroughly, and added a NEWS entry. Jim, is this version clearer?

Yes, much more so. Thanks.