Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Having reviewed bugs 57710 and 41166, I'll enter this as it's what they really wanted. If the program is in a debuggable state you should be able to use Debug step into (or the icon) to start the program and stop at the first line of your code. (Whether "step over" is available to do the same thing is one of those fuzzy interface questions, but I would vote yes.) Gideon should be smart enough not to give these options if either the program was not built debug or the program is not runable (failed build) -- but this could be seen as a later improvement. Sphere.
For the start using step into I'm afraid that gdb does not work this way. To make this work could be very hard. If there is no debug info in your program then you can still debug the executable at the assembly level. And yes, this would only apply to a few people but I am not going to take their fun away :-)