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Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix
> 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.
I think that would be very counter intuitive. The primatives are:
o step executes instructions until you
leave the current line
(be it enter a function or reach a new
line)
o finish leaves the current function
(reducing the stack depth by one)
Andrew