Re: [PATCH] Forbid watchpoint on a constant value

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>]

On Thursday 20 May 2010 20:13:08, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Joel mentioned this patch yesterday, so here it is.  This patch forbids
> > the user to create a watchpoint on a constant value.  The idea is pretty
> > trivial:
> > 
> > 	(gdb) watch 5
> > 	Cannot watch constant value 5.
> 
> Without looking at the specifics of the patch for now, I am wondering
> what other people think of the idea itself. For myself, I can see how
> a warning might be useful, but forbidding it might be viewed as
> a little excessive, particularly if there is a bug in GDB (or in
> the debugging info!!!) that makes it think it's constant when in fact
> it's not.

Hi Joel,

Thanks for your review.  I don't really have a strong opinion about it,
but your suggestion sounds pretty reasonable to me.  Since Jan is the
co-author of this patch, I'll wait to see what he thinks about it.

Thanks,

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Sergio Durigan Junior
Red Hat