Re: breakpoint commands and finish

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 01:42:58PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
>  > > rbreak (or ebreak).  I find I often was to place a breakpoint at the
>  > > end of a function; it'd be nice if gdb could do that automaticly.
>  > 
>  > It's too darned hard :)  Debug info does not represent the exit point
>  > of the function.  It's not always at the end; modern gcc's can emit
>  > multiple exit edges, too.
> 
> And if a tail-call optimization has been done, it gets even harder.
> 
> OTOH, if one stops at the first instruction of a function,
> presumably it'd then be easy to set a breakpoint at the return address.
> I wonder if gdb's macro facility is sufficient to write a macro
> that would make this almost user-friendly: it would set a
> breakpoint at the start of the function (pre-prologue) then have
> commands that first sets a tbreak breakpoint at the return address
> and then continues.  You couldn't already be in the function of
> course (but if you were presumably you'd use "finish").
> 
> ?

The macro facility isn't, but a command could be added to do this
without much trouble.  I would rather us discuss the semantics of
commands lists containing commands which resume the inferior.  There
must be a more user-useful way to approach it than we do now.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer