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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: niko.sams@gmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: watchpoint on variable in function scope
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838vtkf7lx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d3iwno78.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:22:03 -0600
> 
> >>>>> "Niko" == Niko Sams <niko.sams@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Niko> please have a look at the example code below.
> Niko> How can i set a watchpoint on i before starting the appliaction?
> Niko> it used to work with
> Niko> "watch foo::i"
> 
> When did this work?
> I tried 6.8 and 7.1 and neither worked.

I also think that it never worked.  You need to have the variable in
scope to be able to watch it.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-02 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01 21:22 Niko Sams
2011-06-02 17:22 ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-02 17:48   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-06-02 18:07     ` Niko Sams
2011-06-02 18:43     ` Sterling Augustine
2011-06-13 17:43       ` Tom Tromey

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