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Re: Deleting watchpoints when the inferior exits
- To: eliz@gnu.org
- Subject: Re: Deleting watchpoints when the inferior exits
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
- Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 23:30:41 -0600
- Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Reply-To: law@cygnus.com
In message <199908090507.WAA23809@cygint.cygnus.com>you write:
> Shouldn't GDB print some message when it deletes local-scope
> watchpoints after the inferior exits? Someone might want rerun the
> debuggee again and will be surprised to find that all those
> watchpoints silently went away.
>
> As far as I could see, this particular gotcha isn't even documented in
> the manual.
IMHO, this belongs in the user manual, not as a warning in the debugger itself.
jeff