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Re: GDB stub question?


It just stops after a single instruction step, and the source line
does not change.
Could it be a problem with the debug info?
My object file does contain line number information.
any pointers might be helpful here.

Thanks
Inder.




On 4/24/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:59:02PM +0530, Inder wrote:
> > Hi Ramana
> >
> > The stub is capable of single steping but can only step one
> > instruction at a time, when debugging C code, the next or step should
> > acutally step to the next source line, but in my case for every next
> > or step i am only able to step one instruction.
> >
> > The stub has no information about the source lines so the host is
> > capable of doing this, by reading the debug info.
>
> What's going wrong then?  GDB implements source level single stepping
> by doing instruction level single stepping until the source line
> changes.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery
>


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Thanks,
Inder

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