How to skip some lines in the GDB debugger?

Question

How can I skip a line in the GDB debugger?

Answer 1

You may find these links interesting :

GDB Tutorial - Main commands

Another tutorial

In short, you can use :

• next to execute the current line and directly go to the next one (if the line is a function call, it doesn't step into the function),
• step to execute the current line (if it's a function call, it enters the function and stops at its first statement),
• until X to execute the code and stop on line X
• b X and then run or continue, to set a breakpoint on line X and execute the code until line X is reached.

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If you really want to skip a line, thus stepping to the next one but NOT executing it, you can use jump X (X being a line number). Be careful and use breakpoints, because using jump will make the debugger resume code execution from line X.

Answer 2

several ways

next

to step a line

until 1234

to continue until the line 1234.