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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Abrupt GDB Behaviour Post 302792377 by rupeshkp728 on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 09:35:43 AM
Old 04-10-2013
Abrupt GDB Behaviour

Gdb on my system is behaving abruptly.
Say if your program has some 10 lines of code in a function in your program.
Code are simple statements with no looping or jumps.
Example:
Code:
fn()
 {
   printf("0");
   printf("1");
   printf("2");
   printf("3");
   printf("4");
   printf("5");
   printf("6");
   printf("7");
   printf("8");
   printf("9");
  }
  
 main()
 {
    fn();
   
    return(0);
 }

Say you put breakpoint at fn() start.
Your breakpoint hits and then say after debugging(using next/n gdb command) till 3 lines in the function the gdb shows directly the line say 7th line which it must not. Note that gdb does not execute the statement at that line.
Press again next and it will show properly 4th line now.

Why gdb is behaving so and how to make it normal?

GDB is GNU gdb (GDB) SUSE (7.3-0.6.1)
OS is SLES 64 bit.

Last edited by rupeshkp728; 04-10-2013 at 10:45 AM.. Reason: code
 

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