From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Somewhat sanitize watchpoints with conditions on local expressions
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Nn5vq-0006aX-Dp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100304055926.GI2832@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:59:26 +0400)
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:59:26 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > IMO, GBB could be smarted, and check if it makes sense
> > to evaluate the condition in the current frame before
> > actualy trying, and stop if it doesn't, with an short blurb:
> >
> > (gdb) c
> > Continuing.
> > warning: Watchpoint condition can't tested in the current scope
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> That, or maybe just disable the watchpoint and keep going?
Personally, I hate it when GDB disables watchpoints automatically,
since more often than not, it does the Wrong Thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 3:50 Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 5:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-03-04 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-03-04 16:00 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 16:12 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 16:19 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 16:23 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-08 6:34 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-03-10 13:27 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-04 16:05 ` Pedro Alves
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