This is the mail archive of the
gdb@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:33:05PM +0100, André Pönitz wrote:
> I used the term from the comment
>
> "Optimize by setting the stepping range to the line."
Oh, I see - that's the comment below, not the one quoted. OK.
> For me it's in fact the opposite to an optimization as the single stepping
> through the rest of the second line leads to one round trip through the
> stub for each of the remaining instructions which easily sums up to a
> couple of seconds for lines that generate a hundred instructions.
Just what are you disabling then? I thought it was the if block you
quoted, not the step range changes.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery