Re: [RFA] Fix problem with watchpoint test in gdb.base/commands.exp

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-02T15:48:07Z

Andrew Cagney writes:

> ... so there may not necessarily be a frame change.

Right.

> However, if the frame has gone (or is being destroyed) the variable
> is out of scope.

The problem is with the recursive case, where there are several frames
which map to the same line numbers, and several instances of the variable.
gdb could have bugs where it creates a watchpoint for one of these frames,
but then deletes it when an inferior frame exits. With this patch,
the test suite wouldn't detect such a bug.

Michael C