Re: Watchpoints with condition

Vladimir Prus
2007-12-04T07:25:32Z

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 04:50:50 Michael Snyder wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:25 +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > GDB presently allow a watchpoint to have a condition, and I wonder
> > what are the use-cases for that.
> >
> > If anybody has used watchpoint in condition in practice when debugging
> > real problem (as opposed to just playing with gdb, or making up
> > possible uses), can he share why it was needed?
>
>
> May I ask, what prompts the question?
> Were you thinking of getting rid of it?

I'm merely trying to understand the use cases. One of the specific
concern is what happens if a watchpoint's condition refers to a global
variable in a library that is unloaded and if that scenario is of
interest to anybody.

- Volodya