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Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in.
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:53:09 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org, dje@google.com,
> temp@sourceboost.com
>
> > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:38:18 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > > From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:55:39 +0000
> > > Cc: dje@google.com,
> > > temp@sourceboost.com
> > >
> > > Users often find this behaviour unexpected (I've often
> > > wished GDB would behave like what the OP is suggesting too).
> >
> > Then why don't we change the behavior to match what users expect?
>
> Because different users expect different things. I for example would
> be somewhat annoyed by having to issue an extra "step". And the
> argument that this is what people that are familliar with Visual
> Studio are used to is pretty weak. GDB users are used the GDB behaviour!
Well, I'm a GDB user and almost never use Studio, but this behavior
surprises me. What do you make of that?