From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: How to watch for changes in a location of memory
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uprojist2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20080808134800.aM5zGex_42ZxzGncB-eH7DxuyW4eIhXCc18-y9go0sg@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jezlnnoh4s.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Cc: gdb Mailing List <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:55:47 +0200
>
> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it> writes:
>
> > Thank you for the good pointer, yes indeed it seems it does what I
> > want, which is basically:
> > watch &ctx->foo;
>
> This is equivalent to `watch ctx', since the address of ctx->foo can
> only change if ctx changes. Watching an address of something is
> generally not usefull.
And "watch ctx" is also not generally useful, because most platforms
cannot watch large structures.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 12:42 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
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 [this message]
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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