Getting GDB to display the entirety of multi-line statements

Question

GDB, at least as it's configured by default on my Ubuntu 9.04 box, doesn't handle multi-line statements well. When I'm stepping through code, GDB only displays the last line of the current statement, even if that statement spans multiple lines.

I'm aware that I could use DDD or emacs as a frontend for GDB, but I'd prefer to solve this problem within GDB, if that's possible.

Does anyone know if there's a way to get GDB to do the right thing here?

Answer 1

How about running GDB with the text user interface?

gdb -tui

It makes a world of difference to the ease of use of GDB.

Answer 2

I'm afraid the answer is "no, there is no way to get gdb to do what you want". The line info in the symbol tables associates each code instruction with a single source line (not a source statement). gdb has no way of knowing that several source lines are associated with the same source statement.