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Re: Fix for PR 1971 .
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: ramana dot radhakrishnan at codito dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:34:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: Fix for PR 1971 .
- References: <1136312069.8808.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 1/3/06, Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com> wrote:
> Attached is a fix for PR 1971. This inserts a breakpoint at the return
> address for a function that does not have a previous frame which is what
> you have in the case of main. This would however not stop after the
> return from main because the semantics of the next command would not
> stop the execution in any place where there is no debug information.
>
> Tested on native x86 with today's head as well as 6.4 branch with no
> extra regressions .
Is this the behavior we actually want? Where the user hasn't "set
backtrace past-main on", isn't it the correct behavior for GDB to
allow the program to exit when doing a 'next' out of main? (I assume
that, if one does a 'set backtrace past-main on', then 'next' works as
you suggest it should.)