Slowness of step command (especially when cross debugging)

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From: rms
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 1990 19:40

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Yes, a breakpoint on every statement will work.

This technique does not really depend on having noops in the program.
So GDB could in principle use it.  However, it would probably be
slower to install breakpoints in a large function than simply to
single step.

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