Re: breakpoint for accessing memory location

Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-22T22:51:55Z

> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:48:34 -0400
> From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
> CC: rodney.bates@wichita.edu, gdb@sourceware.org
>
> I have no idea why you would think this is invalid, i.e. what the
> general semantic rule is that makes this expression invalid.

The general rule is that watching a constant expression is silly,
since its value never changes and thus the watchpoint will never
break. Thus, it's probably not what the user wanted, and a warning
would be a Good Thing, IMO.