I downloaded mingw-w64 so I can work on writing programs and debugging them from my home laptop, but for whatever reason, when ever I'm debugging a program with gdb and I wish to exit function using 'finish' command, gdb simply runs until it returns from function and simply exits and I return to the shell's prompt. I have no idea what is causing this bug, and it is especially annoying and make debugging very hard because it forces me to go through every line in a function before exiting (God forbids there's a loop). Has someone encountered this bug before? Is there a solution?
PS C:\Users\gamef\OneDrive\Desktop\CPE453\program4_tinyfs> gdb .\a.exe
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Reading symbols from .\a.exe...done.
(gdb) br writeData
Breakpoint 1 at 0x402e44: file TinyFS.c, line 299.
(gdb) run
Starting program: C:\Users\gamef\OneDrive\Desktop\CPE453\program4_tinyfs\a.exe
[New Thread 40396.0x1cc8]
[New Thread 40396.0x6e30]
[New Thread 40396.0x3090]
[New Thread 40396.0x9e38]
Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 1, writeData (begBlock=0, data=0x61fab2 "\001_", 'ÿ' <repeats 31 times>, size=254,
type=DIRECTORY) at TinyFS.c:299
299 Byte buff[BLOCKSIZE] = {0};
(gdb) s
300 buff[MAGIC_OFFSET] = MAGIC_NUMBER;
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0 writeData (begBlock=0, data=0x61fab2 "\001_", 'ÿ' <repeats 31 times>, size=254, type=DIRECTORY)
at TinyFS.c:300
PS C:\Users\gamef\OneDrive\Desktop\CPE453\program4_tinyfs>
It seems that this problem is a caused by a bug inside the 8.1 version of GDB. So I reverted back to GDB 8.0 which seems to work perfectly.