breakpoint on a non-executable line

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Thu Aug 28 19:02:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:00:02PM -0700, Jafa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am seeing a problem/feature? of gdb (June top of trunk) where if you issue
> a command to set a breakpoint on a non-executable line it will return the
> line specified, regardless of where it actually set.
> 
> For example:
> 
> (gdb) b  /ubicom/toolchain/src/ld/ldmain.c:1
> Breakpoint 2 at 0x41b800: file /ubicom/toolchain/src/ld/ldmain.c, line 1.
> 
> (It actually put the breakpoint on line 167).
> 
> Is this the desired behavior? I would have expected it to return success -
> line 167.

Do you know if this is a change?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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