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Re: Watching expressions that don't involve memory (e.g., watch $regfoo)
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:30:17 +0400
- Subject: Re: Watching expressions that don't involve memory (e.g., watch $regfoo)
- References: <201003040156.44957.pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Anyone else things this is useful? Here's a 5 minute hack at it.
> +* Watchpoints on expressions not involving memory
> +
> + GDB now supports watching expressions that don't involve memory.
> + This allows, for example, watching for register changes.
> + E.g. "watch $pc" will do the right thing.
I think that this might be very useful, indeed. For instance, if
a variable is stored in a register instead of memory.
--
Joel