From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Watching expressions that don't involve memory (e.g., watch $regfoo)
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NnBlv-0003Ak-W8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003041316.29257.pedro@codesourcery.com> (message from Pedro Alves on Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:16:29 +0000)
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:16:29 +0000
>
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 04:12:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:56:44 +0000
> > >
> > > Anyone else things this is useful?
> >
> > I do. (Somehow, I thought it actually did work at some point in the
> > past, but maybe I was dreaming.)
>
> Indeed, I tried it on 5.3 and 6.0 gdbs, and it worked. Looking
> at the code, I guess it broke with the support for
> multi-location breakpoints, in 6.8. I guess I shall drop the
> NEWS entry, as it's a regression fix afterall?
There's nothing wrong with saying "works again", if it was broken for
a long time. But if it became broken in 6.8, maybe it's not enough
time.
> I think I'll add a simple test that watches for "watch $pc",
> so that we don't regress again.
Yes, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 1:57 Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 2:05 ` Michael Snyder
2010-03-04 2:13 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-04 13:16 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-03-04 15:39 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-04 5:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-03-04 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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