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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: "William K. Foster" <wkf@sinavigator.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Step outer function call
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128201939.GA12178@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479E3744.1050500@sinavigator.com>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:12:52PM -0800, William K. Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know much about the debug formats, but it seems to me that since  
> the debugger knows what line number it is on in the source code, it  
> should be able to locate the last function call on that line number and  
> enter it for this hypothetical command that many people seem to want.
>
> Am I missing something?

Yes, generally we can't locate the last function call.  The problem
here is "last" - a source line can be broken into many pieces and
contain arbitrary flow control.  We'd have to essentially uncompile
the code to figure it out.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 19:55 William K. Foster
2008-01-28 20:03 ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-28 20:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-28 20:13   ` William K. Foster
2008-01-28 20:20     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-01-29  4:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-29  6:44         ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-28 22:36     ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-28 23:00     ` Nick Roberts

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