Re: Watchpoints with condition

Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-30T21:16:06Z

> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:25:19 +0300
>
>
> 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?

I use it quite a lot. The simplest use case is like this:

(gdb) watch foo if foo == 1

This stops at the watchpoint only if the value written to the variable
is 1. Imagine that you need to find who writes a specific value into
a variable that is otherwise written into a lot by legitimate code.