Breakpoints

[Mark Salter]

>>>>> Kevin Buettner writes:

> 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.

Even in the latter case, the stub can evaluate the condition of the
branch to see which way its going to go.

--Mark