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Subject: Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in.
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From: Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be>
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On 18 Mar 2010, at 20:06, Doug Evans wrote:

> In the former, the last "step" that returns from foo returns to the
> caller - it's intuitive and what I expect.
> In the latter, the last "step" in bar doesn't return to the caller,
> instead it proceeds until we get into foo.  I just stepped out of a
> function - how come I've also stepped into another function?

FWIW, I'd also prefer the "step" to take the detour via the caller.


Jonas