From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] checkpoint / restart, and multi-fork debugging
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051209143700.GB11917@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uoe3qjqmx.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:23:34PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > A nice problem this solves is handling watchpoints when the system has
> > address space randomization. I run into this all the time when
> > debugging -- back before this feature was added to the OS I would put
> > a fair amount of effort into finding some address to watch in one
> > debug session, then restart the inferior with a watchpoint set.
> > Randomization made this impossible; but with this patch I could just
> > make a checkpoint at 'main'.
>
> Perhaps we should mention this as well.
Amen!
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-09 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 15:11 Michael Snyder
2005-12-09 14:23 ` Tom Tromey
2005-12-09 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-09 20:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-12-10 9:06 ` Michael Snyder
2005-12-10 9:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-13 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-10 7:24 ` Michael Snyder
2005-12-09 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-10 8:59 ` Michael Snyder
2005-12-12 23:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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