tui/2545: Feature request: allow users to specify sets of functions which shouldn't be "stepped into"

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>Number:         2545
>Category:       tui
>Synopsis:       Feature request: allow users to specify sets of functions which shouldn't be "stepped into"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 30 09:58:01 UTC 2008
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>Originator:     Francesco Montorsi
>Release:        unknown-1.0
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>Environment:
linux
>Description:
In many cases when debugging step-by-step a program (in my case C++), you have to deal with lines like:

call_of_interest( new blah( "a", 1 ), my_vector.begin(), my_vector.end() ); 

if you want to step into call_of_interest(), you'll have to first step into all the function calls that produce its arguments. This is very annoying.

Microsoft Visual Studio solved the problem introducing a user-customizable list of functions which should _NOT_ be entered in such cases.

More details at:

http://www.cprogramming.com/debugging/visual-studio-msvc-debugging-NoStepInto.html

It would be a great feature to have something like that also in GDB.

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