assembly editing in GDB

[William A. Gatliff]

One other thing:  if you do this:

(gdb) display/i $pc

then gdb will actually show the asm instruction it's about to run.  :^)

b.g.


As On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:11:01AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:52:46AM +0530, Vinayak P Risbud wrote:
> >         Can I run and debug, an assembly program in GDB ?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> >         If yes, how can I edit and write the assembly program
> >         in GDB ?
> 
> You can't.  GDB does not have any support for editing or assembling
> code.  You compile the assembly as normal; if you're using the GNU
> tools you can use "gcc -g" and it will generally arrange to put
> line-number information in the object module.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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