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

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I had to use gdb many times over the years all the time it pisses me off
with one of its features and makes me move back to microsoft debugger as
soon as possible. Now I want to get to the bottom of it and figure out if
it's me or gdb. I'm talking about stepping into a function. Imagine a call
to a function 'foo' that has one argument and the value of this argument
is returned by a call to another function 'bar' like:

...
foo( bar() );
...

All I want to do is to step into 'foo' without having to set any
additional breakpoints.

When I use microsoft debugger and do step into on this line I get into the
function 'bar' first. Than I step out what brings me back to the line
where 'foo' is called. I do another step into and get into 'foo'.

When I debug same code under gdb and do step into I get into 'bar'. So far
so good. I do a step out and wtf... Instead of getting back to the line
where 'foo' is called I get passed it. My step out of 'bar' command caused
call to 'foo' to execute as well. But I just wanted to step out of 'bar'
but not have 'foo' executed yet. Not happy.

So my question is it possible to step out of a function in gdb in code
like above and remain on the line where this function was called from?
What's the secret? Please advise.

Pavel