CLion 2023.1 Help

Disassembly view

In CLion, you can open disassembly view for any frame and also step into it when the source code is unavailable.

Open disassembly view for a frame

  1. Right-click the desired frame in the Debug tool window and select Disassemble:

    Disasm on demand action
  2. Disassembly view will be opened side-by-side with the source code:

    Disasm on demand example

    Once opened, the disassembly view stays synchronized with the currently selected frame. When frames are switched, both the editor and the disassembly view scroll to the execution point.

Open disassembly view when sources are unavailable

  • When debugging your code, use the Force Step Into the Force Step into icon Alt+Shift+F7 command instead of Step Into F7. Step Into acts like Step Over for functions with no source code.

    Disassembly view opens automatically when CLion can’t locate the source files during debugging. This can happen, for example, when you debug a custom executable using a fake CMake project or when there is a library built on CI without the source code being in the project.

    To explicitly specify the source, click Select file in the notification:

    Selecting source file in disassembly

  • Navigate to the desired frame in the Debug Tool window.

  • Disassembly also opens automatically when you launch a debug session for the attached process that does not provide debug information.

Step through in disassembly

While in disassembly view, you can investigate your code using regular stepping actions.

Disassembly view

You can also use the Set Execution Point action to jump to an arbitrary line of code in disassembly:

Set execution point in disassembly

    Breakpoints in disassembly

    You can set breakpoints in disassembly the same way you do in the source code. These breakpoints are called address breakpoints.

    Right-click a breakpoint to view the available options:

    Address breakpoint context menu

    Click More or press Control+Shift+F8 to edit address breakpoints in the Breakpoints dialog:

    Address breakpoints properties

      Go to address

      Use the Go to field to jump to a desired code line. In this field, you can enter an address or any expression that can be evaluated into an address.

      If you need to include a register into the expression, start its name with $ (the GDB notation).

      Refferring to a register in the Go to field of the disassembly view

        Syntax highlighting in assembly files

        Syntax highlighting is available for AT&T assembly code.

        By default, the .s and .asm files are recognized as assembly code files, but you can configure other types:

        1. Go to Settings | Editor | File Types.

        2. Select Assembly Language in the list of recognized file types and add a new extension to the list.

        Last modified: 12 April 2023