Re: breakpoint for accessing memory location

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:18:53 -0400
> > From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
> >
> > And it would lead to surprising results, if you watch p-p and p is
> > out of scope, it would be surprising if it did NOT lead to an error!
>
> Strange, I'd actually expect GDB to tell me that "watch p-p" is an
> invalid command.  Something like
>
>    Warning: attempt to watch constant expression.
>
> I guess we have very different notions of what is reasonable in this
> context.

indeed!

I have no idea why you would think this is invalid, i.e. what the
general semantic rule is that makes this expression invalid.