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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:40:39PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: >I was thinking about defining a gdb command along the lines of > >define my-stepi-watch >while (*(long *) findJarFiles == original_value) >stepi >end > >though I've never done that before, so I'm not sure if that would work ;) It might work but I think you'd probably end up tracking the heat death of the universe before you'd see a result. :-) >I'm not sure about using binary search, as there might be some threading >involved, so I assume it's safer to just check on each stepi and let the >machine run overnight. Ah, threading. That complicates matters a lot. Another way to catch this is to call VirtualProtect on the regions in question and make them read-only. Then when something trashes the location it will die immediately. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base/virtualprotect.asp cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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