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Re: [rfc] Allow watchpoints on inaccessible memory
- From: "Jim Blandy" <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>, "Jim Blandy" <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:33:42 -0800
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Allow watchpoints on inaccessible memory
- References: <20070821142500.GA28295@caradoc.them.org> <20080228161749.GA31695@caradoc.them.org>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:25:00AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Here's something I've been meaning to try for ages. Suppose you have
> > a global variable pointing to some dynamically allocated storage, and
> > you want to find writes into that storage. When the pointer isn't
> > initialized you can't even set the watchpoint:
>
> I have updated this patch, simplified, centralized, commented more
> thoroughly, and added a NEWS entry. Jim, is this version clearer?
Yes, much more so. Thanks.