Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: variable breakpoint Date: 8 May 2012 12:39:41 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <18155830.411.1336427761623.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynll26> X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de IGTHNgJUn4PnszJAeNmXKA5OxBF7KnCtwXJE88/W82pdAw2p2fUqQhsf4HlmvA X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.30-1-amd64 (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:1557 Daniel Pitts 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 -- \ Jens Thoms Toerring ___ jt@toerring.de \__________________________ http://toerring.de