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Re: [RFA] Testsuite addition for x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM fix

Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> No, I'm thinking "finish", which means "take me back
> one stack frame." 

That is not the meaning of "finish" as an English word.  And for GDB it
means: "finish executing the current subroutine".  

Where it should stop is a consequence of that.  And this is what we are
discussing.



> It does not mean "and then finish
> executing the line from which the call took place".
> That's a separate operation.

You are still thinking "assembler".


There are two distinct paradigms" "source level debugging" and
"assembler level debugging".  They are similar but not equal.


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