On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 21:29, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > > * Justin Paston-Cooper: > > > Tom Tromey suggested in that thread that this would be quite easy on > > gdb's side if gcc indicates exit locations in the DWARF data, for > > instance in the C case, it would indicate the locations of return > > statements. On a related note, he mentions that the "finish" command > > does not work for inlined functions because the compiler does not emit > > the required information. > > What about calls to noreturn functions? I assume they would need > breakpoints as well. It could be tricky if those are only called > indirectly, I assume.
Couldn't the brace following the final line of an inlined noreturn function be viewed as its exit point and be indicated in the DWARF information accordingly? Is the problem that each entry in the line number table has to point to a specific statement? Could you explain what you mean with "indirectly"?
