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### 9.1 Printing Source Lines

To print lines from a source file, use the `list` command (abbreviated `l`). By default, ten lines are printed. There are several ways to specify what part of the file you want to print; see Specify Location, for the full list.

Here are the forms of the `list` command most commonly used:

`list linenum`

  Print lines centered around line number linenum in the current source file.

`list function`

  Print lines centered around the beginning of function function.

`list`

  Print more lines. If the last lines printed were printed with a `list` command, this prints lines following the last lines printed; however, if the last line printed was a solitary line printed as part of displaying a stack frame (see Examining the Stack), this prints lines centered around that line.

`list -`

  Print lines just before the lines last printed.

By default, GDB prints ten source lines with any of these forms of the `list` command. You can change this using `set listsize`:

`set listsize count`
`set listsize unlimited`

  Make the `list` command display count source lines (unless the `list` argument explicitly specifies some other number). Setting count to `unlimited` or 0 means there’s no limit.

`show listsize`

  Display the number of lines that `list` prints.

Repeating a `list` command with `RET` discards the argument, so it is equivalent to typing just `list`. This is more useful than listing the same lines again. An exception is made for an argument of ‘`-`’; that argument is preserved in repetition so that each repetition moves up in the source file.

In general, the `list` command expects you to supply zero, one or two locations. Locations specify source lines; there are several ways of writing them (see Specify Location), but the effect is always to specify some source line.

Here is a complete description of the possible arguments for `list`:

`list location`

  Print lines centered around the line specified by location.

`list first,last`

  Print lines from first to last. Both arguments are locations. When a `list` command has two locations, and the source file of the second location is omitted, this refers to the same source file as the first location.

`list ,last`

  Print lines ending with last.

`list first,`

  Print lines starting with first.

`list +`

  Print lines just after the lines last printed.

`list -`

  Print lines just before the lines last printed.

`list`

  As described in the preceding table.

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