Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in.

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Doug Evans wrote:

> I agree it should work as you expect.  I don't see the step out of bar
> continuing passed foo, but I do see it stepping into foo (as if you
> had done two steps, so to speak: step out of bar and step into foo).
> [This is with gdb 7.0 and cvs head.]
> One *could* use `finish' to accomplish what you want but I think a
> `step' at the end of the function should behave like `finish' (modulo
> printing the return value of course).

This was discussed a few years ago.  I think it used to work the way
you (doug) expect, but some people thought it should work the way it
does now.

If I'm not mistaken, there's a user settable mode variable that will
set it back to the way it used to behave, but don't ask me to
remember what it is called.