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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney.bates@wichita.edu>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: breakpoint for accessing memory location
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubqo5pc7y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453A6D1D.1080009@wichita.edu> (rodney.bates@wichita.edu)

> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:55:25 -0500
> From: "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney.bates@wichita.edu>
> CC:  gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> What if I put a watch on p->f where there is a visible p, then execution
> goes somewhere where p is not visible, but p still exists?  For example,
> suppose p is local to function foo, and foo calls non-nested function bar.

This doesn't qualify as going out of scope, because p is still on the
stack.  Only when the function where p is declared returns, will p go
out of scope and the watchpoint be deleted.

> Or, I haven't placed the watch yet and first stop execution in bar.  Can
> I now place this watch after moving up the stack to foo's frame?

Yes, because p is in scope in any function called from foo.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-21 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-19 20:10 Erik Leunissen
2006-10-19 20:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-19 20:24   ` Erik Leunissen
2006-10-19 20:25     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-19 20:28       ` Erik Leunissen
2006-10-20  6:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-20 14:27       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-21 13:20         ` [commit] Fix annotations-related index entries (was: breakpoint for accessing memory location) Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-20 16:56       ` breakpoint for accessing memory location Erik Leunissen
2006-10-20 17:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-21 12:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-21 22:28           ` Erik Leunissen
2006-10-22  4:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-22  9:11               ` Erik Leunissen
2006-10-22  9:19                 ` Erik Leunissen
2006-10-22 22:16                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-23  7:41                   ` Erik Leunissen
2006-10-21 15:06       ` Rodney M. Bates
2006-10-21 15:27         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-21 15:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-21 15:51           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-21 21:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-21 22:32               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-22  4:18                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-22  4:22                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-22 12:18                     ` Robert Dewar
2006-10-22 22:18                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-22 22:21                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-22 22:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-22 22:49                             ` Robert Dewar
2006-10-22 23:18                             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-23  2:03                               ` Robert Dewar
2006-10-23  4:11                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-23 12:36                                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-22 22:48                         ` Robert Dewar
2006-10-22 22:51                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-22 22:55                             ` Robert Dewar
2006-10-23  4:10                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-22 20:40                     ` Mark Kettenis
2006-10-21 18:07           ` Rodney M. Bates
2006-10-21 21:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-21 18:55           ` Rodney M. Bates
2006-10-21 21:53             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-10-22 15:20               ` Rodney M. Bates
2006-10-22 17:24                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-22 22:22                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-23 22:02                     ` Jim Blandy
2006-10-24  4:32                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-24 12:57                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-24 17:37                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-24 17:41                             ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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