Feature suggestion: location conditioned watchpoint

[Etienne Buira]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 02:19:08PM +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 09:35:40 +0200, Etienne Buira via Gdb said:
> > 
> > I tried to debug memory corruption issue with gdb, using watchpoints,
> > and as the bug appeared rarely, i wish i could state "break on this
> > memloc write, if it is not this known good location".
> > 
> > I searched the docs for conditions and convenience variables, but could
> > not find anything useful.
> > 
> > Ideally, i would like to issue a command like:
> > condition WPNUM !(location path/to/myfile.c:42)
> > 
> > If there is already a way to do this, i'd like to hear about it, or
> > please consider it as feature suggestion.
> 
> You could use a condition like:
> 
> $pc != <some_address>
> 
> where <some_address> is the address of the instruction that changes the
> location.
> 
> __Martin

Hi Martin, thank you, sorry to have missed such an obvious way.

Regards.