breakpoints/1773: Nested stepping commands

[ac131313 at redhat dot com]

>Number:         1773
>Category:       breakpoints
>Synopsis:       Nested stepping commands
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 07 20:08:01 UTC 2004
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>Originator:     ac131313@redhat.com
>Release:        2004-09-07
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>Description:
Ref:
 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-09/msg00109.html

> >> The only interesting bit [well I think] is that I'm also removing 
> >> several xfails.  The xfailed test (it should have been a kfail) is 
> >> checking that GDB remembers that it was single-stepping, so that when a 
> >> signal handler breakpoint is hit and then continued, GDB resumes the 
> >> earlier single-step task.  Making this work would involve a stack of 
> >> outstanding commands and would require a very good UI design. 
> >> Consequently, I think the feature & test can be dropped until someone is 
> >> motivated to design / implement it.
>
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