User`s guide

Chapter 6: Controlling Program Execution

Using the

return

Command

If you step into a procedure and then decide you don’t want to step through

the rest of it, use return to ﬁnish executing the procedure and return to the

calling procedure.

The format of the return command is:

return Continues execution until control returns to the procedure

that invoked the return command.

return proc Continues execution until control returns to the named

procedure. Execution continues, unless stopped by a

breakpoint, until the latest invocation of the procedure

named by proc at the time the command was issued is

reached. Execution doesn’t stop at subsequent invocations

of the same procedure. The search for the frame to return to

starts with the previous frame, because the current frame is

skipped in looking for a frame whose name matches proc. If

execution is stopped for any reason, this command is

cancelled.

Starting at a Speciﬁed Line

When you continue your program, you typically do so at the place where it

stopped using the cont command. However, you can also force your

program to continue at a different address by using the goto command:

goto line Begins execution at the speciﬁed line. You may not use the

goto command to resume execution with a line outside of

the current procedure.