Behavior of 'until' command

Pierre Muller muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr
Thu Nov 14 00:19:00 GMT 2002


At 21:28 13/11/2002, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>Andrew Cagney writes:
> > > Similarly from foo line 15 where should 'until fun2' take me? Inside
> > >> fun2, at line 10? Or at line 16? Currently I end up at line 22 which
> > >> is in main. This seems clearly wrong either way.
> > >> 
> > >> Any thoughts?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Your reading sounds right to me.  If you look at the output of 'set
> > > debug target 1' in your example, we set and hit the breakpoint in fun2
> > > and then decide to continue for some reason - that's got to be a bug.
> > > 
> > > If you have a chance this would make a great testcase.
> > 
> > In fact I'm sure it once worked?  Being able to use `until fun2' in 
> > cases like:
> > 
> >      foo ()
> >      {
> >        return (a + b + foo() + bar() + fun2(bar(bax))));
> >      }
> > 
>
>Yes. So all agree that
>
>"until fun2" == "break fun2; continue"  ??


Isn't there still a difference, in thesense that 
if you leave the current frame without calling fun2,
that we stop at the calling frame and remove the breakpoint 
that exists for fun2. 
But I assume that you didn't mean that the 
break fun2 should survive after leaving the frame...



More information about the Gdb mailing list