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Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:42:23 -0400
- CC: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>, Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Red Hat Canada
- References: <200005192321.e4JNLEv13368@delius.kettenis.local> <3B3ABD6E.1040304@cygnus.com> <3B4A2056.4D58E307@cygnus.com> <20010709143406.A17003@nevyn.them.org> <3B4A2C7C.85C688C4@cygnus.com> <3B5F5218.5D55130E@cygnus.com>
Michael Snyder wrote:
>
> I must disagree. Often, when you reach this line and you
> want to step into foo, you will not notice the call to bar
> until it is too late and you have stepped into bar.
>
> When that happens, the only way to reach foo is to "finish" from
> bar, and then step again.
>
As I have explained in this thread (one month ago), the single stepping
caused by finish would stop as soon as foo is entered -- exactly the
behavior you want.
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