Re: Breakpoint on first instruction in program

[Adam Beneschan]

> 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