Re: Watchpoint on an unloaded shared library(2)

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:13:17AM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> >  a) Print b->exp_string and b->cond_string. 
> >     We might make some effort to display it like as its expression is
> >     valid for annotations... I have no idea whether it is worthwhile
> >     to try.  
> 
> I think that this is the best we can do (print exp_string).
> I personally wouldn't worry about trying to massage the string
> into something that would look like we're printing an expression.
> I'm not even sure why we use "print_expression (b->exp) rather
> than printing exp_string directly - perhaps someone does?

I don't know, but it drives me nuts.  This causes:

(gdb) break *0x10000000
Breakpoint 1 at 0x10000000
(gdb) watch *0x10000000
Watchpoint 2: *268435456
(gdb) info break
Num     Type           Disp Enb Address    What
1       breakpoint     keep y   0x10000000
2       watchpoint     keep y              *268435456

I'm sure there are some cases which are more ambiguous if you print
the string, but I'd risk some ambiguity to get rid of that :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery