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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Mihai.Basa@NUIGALWAY.IE, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Auto-deleting watchpoints
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uekvm5ule.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031202204451.GA14313@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:44:51 -0500)

> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:44:51 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> >     
> > This includes deleting local watchpoints even when the program makes a call to 
> > a library function (say, sqrt()). I believe this auto-deletion _severly_ 
> > reduces the practicality of watchpoints, because they simply go away on the 
> > first call they hit!
> 
> That is not what is supposed to happen.  The watchpoint should stay
> until the function containing the local variable has exited.

Right.  And I have simple test cases to prove it.

Mihai, you probably discovered a bug.  Please send a test case.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-03  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-02 20:38 Mihai Basa
2003-12-02 20:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-03  5:36   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-12-04 16:58 Mihai Basa

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