Breakpoints

Kevin Buettner kevinb@cygnus.com
Tue Dec 21 19:54:00 GMT 1999


On Dec 22,  2:29pm, David Williams wrote:

> Does GDB ever need to set more than one breakpoint when stepping through 
> source code? I have not (as yet) seen this type of behaviour.

Can the target do a singlestep in hardware or do you have to do
software emulation?  If the latter, when you're stepping by machine
instruction, you'd need two breakpoints on a conditional branch;
one for the branch target, the other for the instruction after the
branch.

Kevin


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