How to set breakpoint by function name inside anonymous namespace in Visual Studio?

Question

I have the following code:

namespace
{
    void Foo()
    {
    }
}

namespace Bar
{
    void Foo()
    {
    }
}

int main()
{
    Foo();
    Bar::Foo();

    return 0;
}

I want to put breakpoint on Foo() inside anonymous namespace by name (Ctrl+B key binding). I can do it for function inside named namespace Bar with no problem by name Bar::Foo . I tried anonymous namespace::Foo for anonymous namespace but VS fails to parse this name, i guess because of whitespace character in name. Also I tried to put different quotation marks but with no luck. Is it possible at all to put this breakpoint?

Answer 1

I encountered a similar problem a long time ago ( Debugging data in 'anynomous namespaces' (C++) ). I wanted to look at the value of a data member in an unnamed namespace, but I couldn't get this done.

Finally, somebody pointed me to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0888kc6a%28VS.80%29.aspx . Maybe you can get the decorated function name and put a breakpoint on that.

Answer 2

It looks like Visual Studio can't set breakpoint by function name inside anonymous namespace. Even WinDbg can't do this.

If you have sources you can set breakpoint by line.