Re: variable breakpoint

From	jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring)
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: variable breakpoint
Date	2012-05-08 12:39 +0000
Organization	Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
> 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.

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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