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Re: Feature Request
- From: Jonas Maebe <jonas dot maebe at elis dot ugent dot be>
- To: GDB Development <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:03:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: Feature Request
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On 12 Nov 2013, at 20:59, Mark Manning wrote:
> actually no, it wont. it will not execute code that does not have
> debug associated with it. ... for example (in ascii art)
It's definitely unrelated to whether or not there is debug information for that code. I debug machine code without associated debug information using gdb all the time. It is however possible that the size of code sections is taken into account.
Jonas