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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "ying lcs" <yinglcs@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Can i set a breakpoint when a member of a C struct is being assigned?
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <umyxdd68r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568e62a40707292020j4e53d480je8822ac6f37f4eda@mail.gmail.com> 	(yinglcs@gmail.com)

> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:20:58 -0500
> From: "ying lcs" <yinglcs@gmail.com>
> 
> Can i set a breakpoint when a member of a C struct is being assigned?
> 
> For example, i have a C struct in my code:
> struct myStruct{
>    int type;
> };
> 
> How can I break my debugging program when I have code like this:
> 
> myStruct*  p;
> 
> p->type = 10;

Like this:

 (gdb) watch p->type

(If `p' is a local (as opposed to static) variable, you need to do
this when `p' is in scope.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-30 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30  5:37 ying lcs
2007-07-30  9:32 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-30 21:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-07-30 21:17 ` Jim Blandy

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