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From: Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it>
To: gdb@sourceware.org, gdb Mailing List <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: How to watch for changes in a location of memory
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080808091156.GA8935@geppetto> (raw)
Message-ID: <20080808115600.Q1pmG3PkMlVFs_pILu359kDs6G9XmcrXfA6atvzssDE@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d557d0790808080137i56dfeabai6a4ab6c1abcf7a95@mail.gmail.com>

On date Friday 2008-08-08 10:37:50 +0200, Eran Ifrah wrote:
> You might want to try the 'watch' command which will causes gdb to
> break whenever the memory at a given addr has been modified
> 
> Read here for more details:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_6.html#SEC34

Thank you for the good pointer, yes indeed it seems it does what I
want, which is basically:
watch &ctx->foo;

and yes I'll try to RTFM before to post a question the next time!!

[...]

Regards.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-08  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-08  8:13 Stefano Sabatini
2008-08-08  8:38 ` Eran Ifrah
2008-08-08  9:13   ` Stefano Sabatini [this message]
2008-08-08 11:56     ` Stefano Sabatini
2008-08-08 12:42     ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-08 12:48       ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-09 12:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-08 13:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-09 12:20         ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-09 13:49           ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-12 14:34           ` Paul Koning
2008-08-10 21:02             ` Paul Koning

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