feature request: set step-mode smart

[Jonas Maebe]

Ilya Basin wrote on Wed, 25 Apr 2012:

> JM> up to figuring out yet. In the long term, it also does not seem
> JM> tenable to add pattern recognition to gdb for stubs generated by all
> JM> possible compilers (and possibly different versions of those compilers).
>
> No one's speaking about pattern recognition.

If gdb does not automatically step a number of instructions to see  
whether subsequent code has debug information, you need pattern  
recognition in gdb to automatically detect such situations and to  
avoid the problem you described (gdb skipping or stepping over such  
code, rather than stepping into it). See this thread:  
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-04/msg00008.html


Jonas