Re: assembly editing in GDB

William A. Gatliff
2002-08-06T14:01:10Z

One other thing: if you do this:

(gdb) display/i $pc

then gdb will actually show the asm instruction it's about to run. :^)

b.g.

As On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:11:01AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:52:46AM +0530, Vinayak P Risbud wrote:
> > Can I run and debug, an assembly program in GDB ?
>
> Sure.
>
> > If yes, how can I edit and write the assembly program
> > in GDB ?
>
> You can't. GDB does not have any support for editing or assembling
> code. You compile the assembly as normal; if you're using the GNU
> tools you can use "gcc -g" and it will generally arrange to put
> line-number information in the object module.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
> MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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