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Re: How to watch for changes in a location of memory
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Cc: gdb Mailing List <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:55:47 +0200
>
> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it> writes:
>
> > Thank you for the good pointer, yes indeed it seems it does what I
> > want, which is basically:
> > watch &ctx->foo;
>
> This is equivalent to `watch ctx', since the address of ctx->foo can
> only change if ctx changes. Watching an address of something is
> generally not usefull.
And "watch ctx" is also not generally useful, because most platforms
cannot watch large structures.