From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Mihai Basa <Mihai.Basa@NUIGALWAY.IE>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Auto-deleting watchpoints
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031202204451.GA14313@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FCC0BA0@bodkin.nuigalway.ie>
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:40:23PM +0000, Mihai Basa wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
> I'd like to question a certain behaviour of gdb, and I quote from the
> man(ual):
>
> "GDB automatically deletes watchpoints that watch local (automatic)
> variables, or expressions that involve such variables, when they go out
> of scope, that is, when the execution leaves the block in which these
> variables were defined."
>
> This includes deleting local watchpoints even when the program makes a call to
> a library function (say, sqrt()). I believe this auto-deletion _severly_
> reduces the practicality of watchpoints, because they simply go away on the
> first call they hit!
That is not what is supposed to happen. The watchpoint should stay
until the function containing the local variable has exited. If you
have a testcase where that doesn't work, file a bug report (and try the
latest version of GDB), please.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-02 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-02 20:38 Mihai Basa
2003-12-02 20:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-12-03 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-04 16:58 Mihai Basa
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