Breakpoints on a Global

[Bob Sneidar]

In the default debugger you can select the Breakpoints in the lower tab. Then right-click and select New Watch. Select Global Scope in the Handler popup. Select a global variable in the Variable popup. Set a condition (or no it doesn't matter). Click OK. Crash to desktop. DISCLAIMER: Save your changes to all open stacks first!!! :-)

Note that it will only CTD if the variable exists. I still have a watch set for a global in my test stack and have had all morning and it hasn't crashed. That may help whoever at RR to troubleshoot it. If I knew where in the library this was handled I would troubleshoot it myself! 

Bob


On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:14 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 1/24/12 11:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> 
>> You're confusing breakpoints and watched variables. It used to be that you
>> couldn't set a watch on a global variable, but that bug (6506) was fixed in
>> version 4.5.2. If you're using PowerDebug for this, just click to the left of
>> the global name in the global variables display at the top. If you're using the
>> IDE, do whatever (sorry, I can't remember).
> 
> In the IDE, you set a breakpoint and then edit it to set a watch, so they look the same there, basically.
> 
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