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Re: breakpoint for accessing memory location


> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:57:09 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>, rodney.bates@wichita.edu,
> 	gdb@sourceware.org
> > 
> > Does the debug info tell us enough to do that?
> 
> Sometimes, but not reliably.

If so, I don't think GDB can do better than we do now, since only the
compiler knows the true scope of a variable.  Right?

> Another problem with watchpoints is that we don't support any kind of
> location lists for local variables

Again, does the debug info include such location lists?


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