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<stikonas>hmm, I've observed this assembly pane scrolling only downwards on early binaries from stage0-posix

<stikonas>though doesn't happen with proper binaries

<stikonas>perhaps something in a minimal elf header confuses gdb

<xentrac>roconnor: oh, there are a variety of TUI things for GDB, but some of them are external (Emacs GDB-mode being in some sense the officially blessed GNU one which has been around since almost Turbo Pascal) and others are turned off by default for compatibility

<xentrac>also there are some GUIs

<xentrac>greg Law gave a talk a few years ago at CppCon called "give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB"

<xentrac>where he talks a bit about how to get better UI in GDB

<xentrac>in Emacs GDB-mode there's a thing called M-x gdb-display-memory-buffer but it seems to also be worse than Turbo Pascal

<xentrac>I think people who do this kind of thing in earnest on Linux often use radare2 or Ghidra instead of GDB

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