On 5 Dec 2014, at 14:41, Martin Schreiber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Thanks. I was confused as the exception was happening on the first line of a function, so it looked as though the complete function was running when I did a step. Geoffrey > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
