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

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> Michael Snyder wrote:
> >
> > I must disagree.  Often, when you reach this line and you
> > want to step into foo, you will not notice the call to bar
> > until it is too late and you have stepped into bar.
> >
> > When that happens, the only way to reach foo is to "finish" from
> > bar, and then step again.
> >
> 
> As I have explained in this thread (one month ago), the single stepping
> caused by finish would stop as soon as foo is entered -- exactly the
> behavior you want.

But that's not the behavior I want.  "Finish"
should take me to the function that called bar.
Foo did not call bar.
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