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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.


  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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