From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>,
Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>,
Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5F7700.6030407@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B5F595F.821DA2A5@redhat.com>
> Michael Snyder wrote:
>
>>
>> I must disagree. Often, when you reach this line and you
>> want to step into foo, you will not notice the call to bar
>> until it is too late and you have stepped into bar.
>>
>> When that happens, the only way to reach foo is to "finish" from
>> bar, and then step again.
>>
>
>
> As I have explained in this thread (one month ago), the single stepping
> caused by finish would stop as soon as foo is entered -- exactly the
> behavior you want.
I think that would be very counter intuitive. The primatives are:
o step executes instructions until you
leave the current line
(be it enter a function or reach a new
line)
o finish leaves the current function
(reducing the stack depth by one)
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-25 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200005192321.e4JNLEv13368@delius.kettenis.local>
2001-06-27 22:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-06-28 10:54 ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-09 14:21 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-09 14:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
[not found] ` <3B4A2C7C.85C688C4@cygnus.com>
2001-07-09 15:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-07-09 15:28 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-25 16:11 ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-25 16:45 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-25 18:48 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-07-26 7:14 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26 8:48 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-26 10:21 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 10:38 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 10:06 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-26 10:24 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 10:45 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-26 10:54 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 6:10 ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-26 7:14 ` Fernando Nasser
2001-07-26 7:45 ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-26 7:51 ` Fernando Nasser
[not found] <200106281927.MAA29407@stanley.cygnus.com>
2001-06-28 12:41 ` Stan Shebs
2001-06-28 13:02 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
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