Re: reverse for GDB/MI

Michael Snyder
2008-12-22T21:14:54Z

Marc Khouzam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was pointed out to me that people who have been doing reversible
> debug for a while seems to
> have specific commands for reverse debugging and they do have a command
> for "go to time point P".
> For example http://www.undo-software.com/undodb_man.html:
>
> bgoton <number>
> Move forwards or backwards to the specified time, in simulated
> nanoseconds.
> bgoton +<number> | -<number>
> Step forward/backward the specified number of simulated nanoseconds.

I think that's a great idea, but
a) it seems a bit tangential to this thread, since it would
not simply be an addition to MI, but to the CLI as well, and
b) gdb currently has no concept of a time point or execution
point, so we would have to discuss how to define one.