debugging memory location changes.

[Pawel]

Hallo. I have the following problem.

I am debugging large code I am not familiar with. I noticed that
memory location, for example funnyObject.field, changes somewhere and
I do not know where, thus I do not know where to set the breakpoint.
Do You know an efficient way of finding places in the code where value
of memory location changes?

Regards Pawel

 

[Pawel]

Hallo. I have the following problem.

I am debugging large code I am not familiar with. I noticed that
memory location, for example funnyObject.field, changes somewhere and
I do not know where, thus I do not know where to set the breakpoint.
Do You know an efficient way of finding places in the code where value
of memory location changes?

Regards Pawel

Sorry, forgot to mention I am using Linux.
Regards,
Pawel

 

[Michael]

Sorry, forgot to mention I am using Linux.
Regards,
Pawel

This is way off-topic, as there's no standard way to do this in C++.
But probably your debugger has this functionality. It's typically
called watchpoint. Basically, you set a breakpoint conditional on a
variable changing. Check out your gdb or other documentation for more
details.

Michael