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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: congli <congli.cn@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Why does gdb implement 'next' command with a series of 	"vCont;s"?
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070730114303.GA25571@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4414a3a80707292237l543b1b03w5cc2d5d93fe44a47@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:37:33PM +0800, congli wrote:
>  My question is, when I issue the 'next' command, gdb already
>  know the 'step_range_end' is 0x804836f, why not implement the
>  'next' command by set a breakpoint at 0x804836f and then issue
>  "vCont;c"? When the program meet the breakpoint at 0x804836f,
>  we can do a single "vCont;s" to the first instruction of
>  line 7, 0x8048372.

GDB does not know what the instructions between here and there do.
One of them might be a branch or a function call.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-30 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30  6:40 congli
2007-07-30 19:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-07-30  8:14 congli
2007-08-01  1:26 congli

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