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bob

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May 7, 2012, 5:56:01 PM5/7/12
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What's that called when you have a breakpoint that gets triggered when a variable's value changes?

Daniel Pitts

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May 7, 2012, 6:30:08 PM5/7/12
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On 5/7/12 2:56 PM, bob wrote:
> What's that called when you have a breakpoint that gets triggered when a variable's value changes?


My IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) calls it a Field Watchpoint, which may be
somewhat Java specific. I think a Watchpoint works as the general
concept.


Sjouke Burry

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May 8, 2012, 12:52:21 AM5/8/12
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bob <b...@coolfone.comze.com> wrote in
news:18155830.411.1336427761623.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynll26:

> What's that called when you have a breakpoint that gets triggered when
> a variable's value changes?
>

An if or case statement?

Jens Thoms Toerring

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May 8, 2012, 8:39:41 AM5/8/12
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It's also called a watchpoint in gdb or in the Perl debugger.
Other names sometimes used seem to be "conditional breakpoint"
and "data breakpoint".
Regards, Jens
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James Dow Allen

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May 8, 2012, 1:04:35 PM5/8/12
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IBM has/had Program Event Recording (PER) for its mainframes which
implements this (in hardware/firmware depending on model?)

Did anyone here ever use PER?

Robert Wessel

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May 8, 2012, 4:26:13 PM5/8/12
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Sure. VM, for example, provides a very direct interface to the PER
facilities, which you can use to debug running code. Other OSs use it
under the hood.
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