How to break with GDB at object destruction if there is no destructor?

Question

How to break with GDB at object destruction if there is no destructor?

Answer 1

If there's no destructor, you cannot break on the destructor, as there is no op-code for the destructor. You have two choices on where to break:

• If the object is allocated on the stack, break on the closing brace of the scope defining the variable.
• If the object is allocated on the heap, break on the delete statement.
• If the object is statically allocated in a data segment, then you can't.