Hardware Breakpoints

[caibbor]

I haven't found a way to add a hardware breakpoint (ie, the program will break whenever a particular variable is changed, etc). It's a GDB feature and I used it quite a bit in CodeBlocks.

If CodeLite has this functinoality, where is it?

P.S., Sorry for all the comparisons to CodeBlocks



Edit: In this screenshot, I'm not sure if there's supposed to be something in this menu, but there never seems to be...

[Jarod42]

In the Debug Pane, you may add breakpoint with the 'Add' Button.
And there, you may choose between breakpoint and watchpoint.
you are looking for watchpoint.

[eranif]

If CodeLite has this functinoality, where is it?

Debugger pane -> Breakpoints tab

Edit: In this screenshot, I'm not sure if there's supposed to be something in this menu, but there never seems to be...

By default this list is empty.
You add items to it by defining some kind of "complex" expressions to watch, for example, you can choose to display a vector like this:

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$(variable).size()

Or, instead of std::string, you can choose to display it like this:

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$(variable).c_str()

These are called 'Pre Defined Types' in codelite, you can read more about this here:
http://codelite.org/LiteEditor/DebuggerSettings

Eran

[caibbor]

Thank you both.

I expected to find this in the Watches window, turns out it's a feature of the Breakpoints window. Makes sense! (:

I expected that I should be able to click on an expression in the editor and have "Add Watchpoint" be in the context menu somewhere.