Problems with hardware watchpoint on ia32.
Michael Snyder
msnyder@cygnus.com
Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Eli's test of the value's type is incorrect if the watch expression
> > contains a structure comparison, like (foo == bar) || (something
> > else), where foo and bar are structures. In that case, there will be
> > a value of type "struct", not at the end of the value list, but which
> > should be watched in its entirety.
>
> Errr... do you have an actual example program where this happens?
>
> I seem to be unable to reproduce the problem, at least in a C program:
> whenever I say "watch foo == bar" (where foo and bar are structs), GDB
> curses thusly:
>
> Structure has no component named operator==.
Argh... gdb does not seem to know that struct compare
is permitted. I'll publish a patch.
Michael Snyder
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