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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 04:16:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb command "next" wrongly working as command "step"
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 05:36:34 +0200, William Tambe wrote:
> I having an issue where the gdb command "next" wrongly work as the
> command "step", in that it will step-into functions instead of
> stepping-over functions.
> 
> To support single stepping I have implemnted set_gdbarch_software_single_step().
> 
> Is there another function that I need to implement to support
> stepping-over functions ?

"next" needs properly implemented backtrace/unwinding so that can it can do
"finish" when "next" detects it stepped into a function.


Jan