Re: bug: Watch location restrict pointer

Tom Tromey <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:15:10 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.comp.gdb.bugs.general
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Volker> Breakpoint 1, main () at main.cpp:2
Volker> 2=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 void*=
 __restrict__ ptr =3D 0;
Volker> gdbinit:3: Error in sourced command file:
Volker> A syntax error in expression, near `restrict *) 0x00007fffffffd608'.

Thanks for the report.
I sent a patch to fix this.  Some variant of it should go in reasonably
soon.

As a workaround you can try something like stripping out the restrict:

watch -location (void *) ptr

Tom