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

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

> 
> All are the same.  "step" gets into foo(), a "finish" finishes foo(),
> but then there is bar() so you stop there next.  Another "finish" and
> you will stop on the line that follows the above lines.
> 
> Note that a "finishi" command would leave you at the return point at
> some PC in the middle of the above source lines.  


So what happens if you're sitting in foo() and type finish but the 
previous command wasn't step.  Do you still find yourself in bar()?

> 
> 'step' should never leave you in the same line from where you've issued
> it.  That is counter intuitive, even if you had a stop-finish in the
> middle.


This actually throws me.  Reading it one way it suggests that ``step ; 
finish'' should have special behavour.  See question above.

Anyway try thinking of ``finish'' as a special form of step.  What 
happens if you step through foo()?  When foo() exits do you jump to 
bar() or go back to the caller?

	Andrew