Re: [patch]: inform user that a watchpoint is hit

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Chandru<chandru@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> When a program is restarted within gdb, the initial breakpoint hit messages are
> not outputted on to the screen. Inform the user that a watchpoint has been hit
>
> Signed-off-by: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@ilinux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> --- gdb/breakpoint.c.orig       2009-08-14 17:53:06.000000000 +0530
> +++ gdb/breakpoint.c    2009-08-14 17:54:02.000000000 +0530
> @@ -842,6 +842,9 @@ update_watchpoint (struct breakpoint *b,
>   struct bp_location *loc;
>   bpstat bs;
>
> +  if (breakpoint_enabled (b))
> +      mention(b);
> +
>   unlink_locations_from_global_list (b);
>   for (loc = b->loc; loc;)
>     {
>

Hi.
If we're stopping because of a watchpoint and not reporting it, that's bad.
But it seems odd that this is happening, and simple experiments don't
reveal anything.
Do you have a testcase?