From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-return-30384-listarch-gdb=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 27271 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2007 16:25:31 -0000
Received: (qmail 27239 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Nov 2007 16:25:30 -0000
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4)     by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:25:26 +0000
Received: (qmail 32332 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2007 16:25:24 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO 172.16.unknown.plus.ru) (vladimir@127.0.0.2)   by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 30 Nov 2007 16:25:24 -0000
From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Watchpoints with condition
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:25:00 -0000
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200711301925.20196.vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00296.txt.bz2


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?

- Volodya