Watchpoint issues

[Vladimir Prus]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 13:29, Jens Dagerbo wrote:
> On 4/20/06, Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs.msu.su> wrote:
> >   - Gdb does not provide a mechanism to reliably identify "same scope".
>
> I guess this makes the discussion rather academic, but.. if I
> understand you correctly, this means that if I want to use watchpoints
> to look at the intermediate steps of a calculation in a utility
> function that uses local variables, I have to put a breakpoint at the
> start of the function and every time that breakpoint is hit I need to
> manually reenable the relevant watchpoints?

Yes.

> Pity. :(

Indeed.

- Volodya