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Re: Getting pissed off by gdb. Please help with stepping in.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 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!
That argument is pretty weak too IMO.
This isn't a VS vs GDB discussion.