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Subject: Re: Watchpoints with condition
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
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On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:25 +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> GDB presently allow a watchpoint to have a condition, and I wonder
> what are the use-cases for that.
> 
> If anybody has used watchpoint in condition in practice when debugging
> real problem (as opposed to just playing with gdb, or making up
> possible uses), can he share why it was needed?


May I ask, what prompts the question?
Were you thinking of getting rid of it?