Re: Behavior of 'until' command

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Pierre Muller writes:
 > At 21:28 13/11/2002, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > >Andrew Cagney writes:
 > > > > Similarly from foo line 15 where should 'until fun2' take me? Inside
 > > > >> fun2, at line 10? Or at line 16? Currently I end up at line 22 which
 > > > >> is in main. This seems clearly wrong either way.
 > > > >> 
 > > > >> Any thoughts?
 > > > > 
 > > > > 
 > > > > Your reading sounds right to me.  If you look at the output of 'set
 > > > > debug target 1' in your example, we set and hit the breakpoint in fun2
 > > > > and then decide to continue for some reason - that's got to be a bug.
 > > > > 
 > > > > If you have a chance this would make a great testcase.
 > > > 
 > > > In fact I'm sure it once worked?  Being able to use `until fun2' in 
 > > > cases like:
 > > > 
 > > >      foo ()
 > > >      {
 > > >        return (a + b + foo() + bar() + fun2(bar(bax))));
 > > >      }
 > > > 
 > >
 > >Yes. So all agree that
 > >
 > >"until fun2" == "break fun2; continue"  ??
 > 
 > 
 > Isn't there still a difference, in thesense that 
 > if you leave the current frame without calling fun2,
 > that we stop at the calling frame and remove the breakpoint 
 > that exists for fun2. 
 > But I assume that you didn't mean that the 
 > break fun2 should survive after leaving the frame...

Yes, if the current function finishes, you stop at the caller. And may
not reach fun2 ever.

Elena