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Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in.
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:21:48 +0000
> Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> temp@sourceboost.com
>
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 15:10:41, Doug Evans wrote:
> > The behaviour Pavel describes in his message, but which I do not see, is this:
> >
> > (gdb) f
> > #0 bar () at stepout.c:4
> > 4 int bar () { return 1; }
> > (gdb) s
> > main () at stepout.c:12
> > 12 return 0;
> > (gdb)
> >
> > Note that we've stepped out of bar, into foo, and back out of foo.
>
> He most probably used "next" when he said:
>
> > I do a step out and wtf... Instead of getting back to the line
> > where 'foo' is called I get passed it.
I would expect "next" on line 4 to behave the same as "step", since
there's no function call there.