Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>]

Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> But that's not the behavior I want.  "Finish"
> should take me to the function that called bar.
> Foo did not call bar.


It depends on how you're thinking about it.  You are thinking
"assembler", which calls bar(), stores the result and then calls foo().

You you think source code, the line is:

foo (bar ());

It is like peeling an onion.  The outermost shell (the last stop) is
foo().  But before you have to go through bar() and any other inner
calls.


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