Re: Can gdb or dbx debug (trace) assembly source code?

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From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 12:34

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In article <D3KFyH.8xy@kithrup.com>, mrs@kithrup.com (Mike Stump) writes:

|> In article <3h2115$7qf@sparky.cs.nyu.edu>,
|> Salem Reyen <m-sr0069@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
|>> Can gdb step (trace) through a single assembly line at a time?  How?  

|> Yes.  Type stepi.  You might try `si':


|> define si
|> stepi
|> x/1i $pc
|> end

si is already a synonym for stepi, and you can get the same effect by
setting an auto-display like this:

display/i $pc

There is also nexti aka ni that steps over subroutines.
-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"

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From: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
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Subject: Re: Can gdb or dbx debug (trace) assembly source code?
Date: 10 Feb 1995 12:34:25 GMT
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