jimingham wrote:

That watchpoints can be inaccurate is probably news to a lot of debugger users, 
and knowing that might save somebody a fruitless hour wondering "how that 
variable could be being modified here..."  But I don't think most folks are 
likely to see the API doc string.  Might be more useful to mention this in the 
"watch set" help.

Jikm

> On Sep 18, 2023, at 6:38 PM, Greg Clayton ***@***.***> wrote:
> 
> 
> @clayborg approved this pull request.
> 
> Thanks for the changes! Looks great
> 
> In lldb/bindings/interface/SBWatchpointOptionsDocstrings.i 
> <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/66308#discussion_r1329453193>:
> 
> > @@ -6,11 +6,7 @@
>  ) lldb::SBWatchpointOptions::SetWatchpointTypeRead;
>  %feature("docstring", "Gets whether the watchpoint should stop on read 
> accesses."
>  ) lldb::SBWatchpointOptions::GetWatchpointTypeRead;
> -%feature("docstring", "Sets whether the watchpoint should stop on write 
> accesses."
> +%feature("docstring", "Sets whether the watchpoint should stop on write 
> accesses. eWatchpointWriteTypeOnModify is the most commonly useful mode, 
> where lldb will stop when the watched value has changed. 
> eWatchpointWriteTypeAlways will stop on any write to the watched region, and 
> on some targets there can false watchpoint stops where memory near the 
> watched region was written, and lldb cannot detect that it is a spurious 
> stop."
> Do we need to state "and on some targets there can false watchpoint stops 
> where memory near the watched region was written, and lldb cannot detect that 
> it is a spurious stop."? Can we remove that? Seems like information that most 
> users wouldn't need to know?
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