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+"""
+Test that we can have persistent pointer variables
+"""
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+
+
+import lldb
+import lldbsuite.test.lldbutil as lldbutil
+from lldbsuite.test.lldbtest import *
+
+class PersistentPtrUpdateTestCase(TestBase):
+
+    mydir = TestBase.compute_mydir(__file__)
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        # Call super's setUp().
+        TestBase.setUp(self)
+
+    def test(self):
+        """Test that we can have persistent pointer variables"""
+        self.build()
+
+        def cleanup():
+            pass
+        
+        # Execute the cleanup function during test case tear down.
+        self.addTearDownHook(cleanup)
+
+        self.runCmd("file a.out", CURRENT_EXECUTABLE_SET)
+        
+        self.runCmd('break set -p here')
+
+        self.runCmd("run", RUN_SUCCEEDED)
+        
+        self.runCmd("expr void* $foo = 0")
+        
+        self.runCmd("continue")
+        
+        self.expect("expr $foo", substrs=['$foo','0x0'])