Re: [Valgrind-users] Catching changes to a memory location

[Dan K. <da...@ke...>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Alex Bennee <ker...@be...> wrote:
> Is there any way I could mark an interesting location in memory with
> the client mechanism and then get
> Valgrind to show me a backtrace everytime the location was touched? If
> not it would be a really useful tool :-)

That would be cool.  That said, have you tried a watchpoint in gdb?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58851/can-i-set-a-breakpoint-on-memory-access-in-gdb
- Dan