From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] checkpoint / restart, and multi-fork debugging
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051210014946.GA28484@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439A307C.3080107@redhat.com>
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:33:48PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Something like this?
>
> It may be useful to take a checkpoint at 'main', and return
> to that checkpoint instead of restarting the program. This
> will help keep things deterministic by avoiding random things
> that may occur during creation of a new process (such as
> address space randomization).
s/things/the program's behavior/ maybe?
> I don't really know about "address space randomization" (though
> I can guess what it means)...
See exec-shield for more information about this. The stack, heap, and
library load addresses all may move around (and more, for
position-independent executables).
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-10 1:49 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
2005-12-10 9:06 ` Michael Snyder
2005-12-10 9:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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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