From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4798 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2005 14:37:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 4790 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Dec 2005 14:37:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:37:02 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EkjMr-00039B-1C for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:37:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:59:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] checkpoint / restart, and multi-fork debugging Message-ID: <20051209143700.GB11917@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <439614B1.2030206@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-12/txt/msg00175.txt.bz2 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