From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,
Gaius Mulley <gaius@glam.ac.uk>,
Sandeep222 <sandeep.srikumar@honeywell.com>,
"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: How to store function-name and its return values while program runs
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081121222835.GA16751@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ac60eac0811211410s2196e9a1g28c824850b222bf6@mail.gmail.com>
> I wished many times that above worked, but it doesn't: 'finish'
> appears to interrupt flow of script, and subsequent commands are
> never executed:
[...]
> Is this a bug?
It actually isn't. The manual tries to explain why:
> Any other commands in the command list, after a command that resumes
> execution, are ignored. This is because any time you resume execution
> (even with a simple next or step), you may encounter another
> breakpoint--which could have its own command list, leading to
> ambiguities about which list to execute.
Most of the users at AdaCore view this as a limitation, but I haven't
really had the energy to look at improving this.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 10:36 Sandeep222
2008-11-21 11:02 ` Gaius Mulley
2008-11-21 19:05 ` Michael Snyder
2008-11-21 22:11 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2008-11-21 22:29 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-11-22 0:48 ` Michael Snyder
2008-11-22 0:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-11-22 0:47 ` Michael Snyder
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