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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


  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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