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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


  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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