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Assembly
window
Figure 10: Assembly window
The
Assembly window (Figure 10) has a scroll bar along
its right side and a status bar just under its data display area. The arrow
indicates the current PC.
It
has four standard menus: File (see
Common
menus for the GDB GUI), Window (see
Common
menus for the GDB GUI), Options
(the Options
menu for the Assembly window is in development and has no functionality
now) and Help (see
Common
menus for the GDB GUI).
Assembly Window buttons
The
Assembly window has seven command buttons.
- Stepi
Executes one instruction, then stops
and returns control to GDB.
- Cont
Resumes execution until completion
or until a breakpoint is encountered.
- Up
Displays the disassembly of the caller
of the current function.
- Bottom
Displays the disassembly of the function
at the current PC (bottom of stack).
- Nexti
Executes one machine instruction unless
it is a function call in which case it allows the process to continue until
the function returns.
- Finish
Runs the debugging process until just
after the function in the current stack frame returns.
- Down
Displays the disassembly of the function
in the next stack frame down.