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Re: Problems with hardware watchpoint on ia32.


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Eli's test of the value's type is incorrect if the watch expression
> > contains a structure comparison, like (foo == bar) || (something
> > else), where foo and bar are structures.  In that case, there will be
> > a value of type "struct", not at the end of the value list, but which
> > should be watched in its entirety.
> 
> Errr... do you have an actual example program where this happens?
> 
> I seem to be unable to reproduce the problem, at least in a C program:
> whenever I say "watch foo == bar" (where foo and bar are structs), GDB
> curses thusly:
> 
>         Structure has no component named operator==.

Argh... gdb does not seem to know that struct compare
is permitted.  I'll publish a patch.

				Michael Snyder

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