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.
On 21 June 2012 05:09, Bob Plantz <pla...@ieee.org> 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 > > >
