On Friday 05 December 2014 15:20:36 Geoffrey Barton wrote: > On 5 Dec 2014, at 12:04, Martin Schreiber <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 05 December 2014 11:22:04 Geoffrey Barton wrote: > >> I found a tickbox 'stop on exception', this gets me most of the way! > > > > If the program stops because of an exception, 'View'-'Stack' shows a list > > of the call stack. Clicking in a row switches the active frame for the > > watch window, DblClick shows the source position of the call. > See also the previous mail in "First steps with mse..." thread.
> can you explain to me the function of the debugger icons as I am having > difficulty navigating to find the bug. Specifically what is the difference > between 'next', 'step', 'finish' (finish what?),'next instruction', 'step > instruction'. > > I don't relate to the (too small) icon pictures, some arrows go backwards > up a listing, but seem to move the pc forwards. > They map to the corresponding gdb commands and are also accessible by the 'Target' main menu item. next = next source line, do not jump into procedures. step = next source line, do jump into procedures. finish = finish current procedure. next instruction = next assembler line, do not jump into procedures. step instruction = next assembler line, do jump into procedures. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
