hi, i found your book very interesting. Can i also somehow contribute to it?
On 21 June 2012 16:41, Bob Plantz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/21/2012 03:46 AM, Iurie wrote: > > Hi Bob, > what course u are teaching out there? give me the link to it, perhaps i > will learn there something useful as i am also a student. > > > I retired from teaching in 2004, but I keep my book, Introduction to > Computer Architecture, updated. It is available on my web site: > bob.cs.sonoma.edu > > I checked info gdb. Under Source->Specify Location I found an entry for > `*ADDRESS'. Apparently, the *ADDRESS form is for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, > Fortran, minimal, and assembly. The *&ADDRESS' form is for Pascal and > Modula-2. However, it seems that gdb is forgiving between these two forms. > And, from my personal experience, this can differ between versions and can > change over time. > > --Bob > > > > > On 21 June 2012 05:09, Bob Plantz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 6/20/2012 1:39 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>> I am using the following assembly language program (doNothingProg.s) for >>>> instruction purposes: >>>> >>>> .text >>>> .globl main >>>> .type main, @function >>>> main: >>>> pushq %rbp # save caller's frame pointer >>>> movq %rsp, %rbp # establish our frame pointer >>>> movl $0, %eax # return 0 to caller >>>> movq %rbp, %rsp # restore stack pointer >>>> popq %rbp # restore caller's frame pointer >>>> ret # back to caller >>>> >>>> I want to set a breakpoint at the first instruction (pushq %rbp) so >>>> students can see how the stack frame is created. >>>> >>> break *&main >>> >>> -- Adam >>> >> Thank you for the response Adam. >> >> Actually, break *main worked for me. (Or just br *main). I'm not in Linux >> right now, but I will double check next time I log in. >> >> I found this by using info gdb and some looking around. As usual, the >> answer is in the documentation, as I often told my students. :-[ >> >> --Bob >> >> >> > >
