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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@br.ibm.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: 'finish' command on ppc64
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101108154249.GC2811@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101108122443.GA28189@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>

> It was discussed at:
> 	Re: [FYI] Inlining support, rough patch
> 	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00786.html
> 
> with some Fedora patch (later dropped) so that after `finish' GDB would
> _always_ stay at the caller line.

Interesting. I'm not sure I would agree if the jump was the last insn
of the line... Showing the caller's line in this case would be a
departure from the usual behavior of showing the next insn, no?

> Currently testcases expect both cases:
> gdb.base/finish.exp
>     # Some architectures will have one or more instructions after the
>     # call instruction which still is part of the call sequence, so we
>     # must be prepared for a "finish" to show us the void_func call
>     # again as well as the statement after.

I think that's fine.

-- 
Joel


      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-08 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-08 12:10 Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2010-11-08 12:25 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-08 15:43   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]

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