Bug 396501 - Pause at watch point only if value changes
Summary: Pause at watch point only if value changes
Status: NEW
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Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Debug (show other bugs)
Version: 3.8.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: JDT-Debug-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-12-13 09:26 EST by Michael Schmid CLA
Modified: 2012-12-13 09:26 EST (History)
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Description Michael Schmid CLA 2012-12-13 09:26:48 EST 
In the watchpoint properties, when I remove the tick at “access” and leave it at “modification“, the debugger also stops when the same value is written to the field that it has already. I suggest to have an additional option to make the debugger only stop when the field value actually changes. In the watchpoint properties, one could then have the three choices ”read“, “write”, “modified”.

Note that this is not a duplicate of bug 96719. Although conditional watchpoints would solve this “bug” as well, the enhancement suggested here might be easier.