Is it possible to “jump”/“skip” in GDB debugger?

Question

Is it possible to jump to some location/address in the code/executable while debugging in GDB ?

Let say I have something similar to the following

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Answer 1

There seems to be a jump command which is exactly what you are looking for:

http://idlebox.net/2010/apidocs/gdb-7.0.zip/gdb_18.html#SEC163

Updated link: http://web.archive.org/web/20140101193811/http://idlebox.net/2010/apidocs/gdb-7.0.zip/gdb_18.html#SEC163