Is there an option to "silent-step"/ "silent-next" (possibly in python and/or mi)?

Chris Packham judge.packham@gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 07:00:49 GMT 2023


On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, 2:44 AM Simon Sobisch via Gdb, <gdb@sourceware.org>
wrote:

> For "stepping in the current source" (given a mixed-source) I look for a
> way to "silent step" / "silent next".
> This will be useful for example if you debug within Bison and/or Flex
> generated sources and don't want to step through the state / token
> machine, having only the Bison / Flex _source_ be visible.
>
> Getting the source name from the frame and comparing this after a
> step/next is no big problem in GDB using python
>     gdb.selected_frame().find_sal().symtab.fullname()
>
> Using GDB in TUI mode I commonly "stay" in the source I'm interested in
> this way, but the GDB command line gets "flooded" with all the
> intermediate frame positions I'm not interested in.
>
> So: is there a way to do a "step"/"next" with suppressing the normal
> output and mi stop events normally send?
>
> Thank you for any pointers,
> Simon
>

Does the `skip` command do what you want? I use it for skipping
uninteresting things like memset() or printf() when stepping.

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