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From: bigelow@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jim Bigelow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: xdb debugger question?
Message-ID: <7370201@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 16:22:08 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> I am debugging a C program that has static data that is getting
> corrupted before the first statement in my main.  Somebody
> suggested that I single step in assembley mode before the
> first statement in main.  But xdb always jumps to the
> first statement in main even with the debugger in the assembley
> mode.

> This is what I am doing:
> 	Start xdb
> 	td #go into assemble mode
>	s #single step

Here's the problem, s/S steps statement by statement, use j/J to step at the
instruction level.

Best Regards,

Jim Bigelow
Colorado Language Lab
HP

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