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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:28:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in.
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> The behaviour Pavel describes in his message, but which I do not see, is =
this:
>
> (gdb) f
> #0 =A0bar () at stepout.c:4
> 4 =A0 =A0 =A0 int bar () { return 1; }
> (gdb) s
> main () at stepout.c:12
> 12 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0return 0;
> (gdb)
>
> Note that we've stepped out of bar, into foo, and back out of foo.

Although ...

Pavel wrote:
> [...] My step out of 'bar' command caused
> call to 'foo' to execute as well. But I just wanted to step out of 'bar'
> but not have 'foo' executed yet.

could instead mean that we've stepped into foo, i.e. gdb's current
behaviour.  Heh.
Still, I've also tripped over doing a step at the end of a function
and ended up not back in the caller, but in another subroutine - and
wish that hadn't happened.