From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1541 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2010 20:43:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 1513 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Mar 2010 20:43:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.35) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:20 +0000 Received: from hpaq14.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq14.eem.corp.google.com [10.3.21.14]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o2IKhHwi020333 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:43:17 +0100 Received: from wyb28 (wyb28.prod.google.com [10.241.225.92]) by hpaq14.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o2IKhFc9030595 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:43:16 +0100 Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so1317104wyb.20 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:43:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.172.70 with SMTP id s48mr880154wel.114.1268944995308; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:43:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201003181953.o2IJr9MV006009@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> References: <11611.203.63.255.139.1268879984.squirrel@webmail5.pair.com> <201003181521.48681.pedro@codesourcery.com> <8339zxv5tp.fsf@gnu.org> <201003181855.39643.pedro@codesourcery.com> <831vfhv2s5.fsf@gnu.org> <201003181953.o2IJr9MV006009@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in. From: Doug Evans To: Mark Kettenis Cc: eliz@gnu.org, pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org, temp@sourceboost.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Mark Kettenis w= rote: >> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:38:18 +0200 >> From: Eli Zaretskii >> >> > From: Pedro Alves >> > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:55:39 +0000 >> > Cc: dje@google.com, >> > =A0temp@sourceboost.com >> > >> > Users often find this behaviour unexpected (I've often >> > wished GDB would behave like what the OP is suggesting too). >> >> Then why don't we change the behavior to match what users expect? > > Because different users expect different things. =A0I for example would > be somewhat annoyed by having to issue an extra "step". =A0And the > argument that this is what people that are familliar with Visual > Studio are used to is pretty weak. =A0GDB users are used the GDB behaviou= r! That argument is pretty weak too IMO. This isn't a VS vs GDB discussion.