Command to break before exiting stack frame?
Justin Paston-Cooper <[email protected]>
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Hello, I would be interested to see a command which breaks just before exiting the current stack frame. I have so far seen this implemented as a custom command in Python, which searches for 'retq' instructions in the current stack frame. I am not an ASM expert, but I imagine that this might not work for all architectures. In any case, you might ask why I can't just use that instead of expecting it as a native command in gdb. You might also ask why I don't just give the line number of the returns of the function in question. There are a few reasons: 1. We already have a command to break at the beginning of a function given its name (break). 2. We already have a command to continue to the end of the current stack frame and then exit it (finish). 3. Analysing C/C++/other code with gcc is difficult. grep can tell me the line numbers of returns in C/C++, but there might be other languages where such a simple solution is not so readily available. In any case, it's still an extra step. 4. rbreak breaks at the beginning of all functions matching a regex. It would be simple and useful to add a "break on frame exit" command to the commands part of an rbreak command to see the ending state of all chosen functions. I can't imagine that I am the first person to suggest or request this. Are there any architectural or practical reasons as to why this is might be difficult? I was not able to find any, but are there any existing, equivalent and native solutions? Thanks in advance, Justin