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Continuing at a different address
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Continuing at a different address
Ordinarily, when you continue your program, you do so at the place where it
stopped, with the continue command. You can instead continue at an address of your own choosing, with
the following commands.
jump linespec
Resume execution at line, linespec. Execution stops again immediately if there is a breakpoint there. See Printing source lines for a description of the different forms of linespec.
The
jump command does not change the current stack frame, or the stack pointer, or the
contents of any memory location or any register other than the program
counter. If line, linespec, is in a different function from the one currently executing, the results may
be bizarre if the two functions expect different patterns of arguments or of
local variables. For this reason, the jump command requests confirmation if the specified line is not in the function
currently executing. However, even bizarre results are predictable if you are
well acquainted with the machine-language code of your program.
jump *address
Resume execution at the instruction at address, address.
You can get much the same effect as the
jump command by storing a new value into the register, $pc. The difference is that this does not start your program running; it only
changes the address of where it will run when you continue. For example, set $pc = 0x485 makes the next continue command or stepping command execute at address, 0x485, rather than at the address where your program stopped. See Continuing and stepping.
The most common occasion to use the
jump command is to back up, perhaps with more breakpoints set, over a portion of a
program that has already executed, in o
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