From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Antony KING <antony.king@st.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [GDB 6.8] Problem using watchpoints with compound objects
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304192826.GB21091@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49AED46D.7010701@st.com>
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:20:13PM +0000, Antony KING wrote:
> However my original query relating to arrays is still valid. If I
> perform the same test with "a" defined as an array (as in my original
> email) then the effect of coerce_array() in value_equal() remains; the
> watchpoint is reported by the H/W but value_equal() will always report
> TRUE (since it compares the address of the array and not its contents)
> and hence GDB erroneously ignores the watchpoint as unchanged. Therefore
> I still think the change to watchpoint_check() is still valid. If you
> concur I will submit a patch for this.
I think I agree, but honestly I'm too confused to be sure; it does not
help that you're working against GDB 6.8 and this code has changed in
HEAD. I suggest posting the patch, but including a testcase so that
the change in behavior is realy obvious.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 17:39 Antony KING
2009-03-03 20:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-03-03 21:18 ` Antony KING
2009-03-03 21:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-03-04 19:20 ` Antony KING
2009-03-04 19:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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