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Re: Feature Request
- From: Jonas Maebe <jonas dot maebe at elis dot ugent dot be>
- To: Mark Manning <mark4th at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:10:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: Feature Request
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On 12 Nov 2013, at 18:02, Mark Manning wrote:
> So, I would like to request a feature that will allow GDB to simply
> single step opcodes anywhere within the process space owned by the
> application being debugged even if there is no debug symbols
> associated with it.
It already does that. Just use "si" (or "stepi") rather than "step" or "next". It can be useful to have "display/i $pc" active when doing so, so you can see what's the next instruction to be executed.
Jonas