Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:13:16PM -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > > Stepping in to bar, typing finish,
> > > and ending up after the call to foo would be exceedingly non-intuitive.
> > >
> >
> > This is true. But a finish would not stop after the call to foo() in
> > this case.  The stepping would be aborted as we entered foo() itself
> > (note that I said "step", not "next").  The result is quite intuitive
> > in this case and you just provided one good example of how we could
> > use it -- one could go "finish"-ing until the desired function was
> > entered (without the need to step again and without the weird thing
> > of appearing to stop at the same line you were before).
> 
> I personally think that this would be more confusing - I finish a
> function and end up, not in its caller, but in some other function
> called from the caller?  But I've no strong opinion; both options seem
> a little clunky.
> 

Of course, this could be made an option, so different tastes are accommodated (default to current behavior).  But I won't have time to implement it in the near future, so you don't have to worry about it :-)

Regards and thanks for the comments,
Fernando

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