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Re: PR8554: New command to save breakpoints to a file
On Thursday 15 April 2010 19:46:15, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 April 2010 18:51:55, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >> What about watchpoints? Do we get all the context info right?
> >
> > Watchpoints on globals, as right as breakpoints. Watchpoints on
> > locals, no, you're just out of luck. I don't think there's
> > much to do there; GDB gets rid of those on process start/exit,
> > so users are used to those not being very "persistanteable".
> > OTOH, it may be useful to be able to dump watchpoints on locals,
> > and be able to load them up when you know it's okay, so never
> > dumping those isn't that great either. So, IMO, we shouldn't
> > worry much about those, at least, in this first patch. :-) I
> > could add a note to the manual, perhaps.
>
> That's cool. So what do we do now? Just skip them?
> Save the global ones, skip the local ones?
We save them.
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Pedro Alves