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Re: Breakpoints
>>>>> Kevin Buettner writes:
> On Dec 22, 2:29pm, David Williams wrote:
>> Does GDB ever need to set more than one breakpoint when stepping through
>> source code? I have not (as yet) seen this type of behaviour.
> Can the target do a singlestep in hardware or do you have to do
> software emulation? If the latter, when you're stepping by machine
> instruction, you'd need two breakpoints on a conditional branch;
> one for the branch target, the other for the instruction after the
> branch.
Even in the latter case, the stub can evaluate the condition of the
branch to see which way its going to go.
--Mark