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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Reverse debugging, part 3/3: user interface / docs
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44481117.8070904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060420160717.GF11710@nevyn.them.org>

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I've got no opinions on this patch.  The content looks fine.  My
> only concern is that I don't much like "set" variables which succeed or
> fail depending on the target - we can switch targets unexpectedly.
> 
> Can we just give the error in proceed if the target can't run in
> reverse?

You mean, "and not give an error when you say "set exec-dir"?

Well here's the thing: I've had experience with something
very similar*, and the users complained.  They wanted to
know sooner if there was a problem.

* Tracepoints.  You don't find out that the remote target can't
support them until you say continue.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <442DAAD9.6080509@redhat.com>
2006-04-01 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-03 19:27   ` Michael Snyder
2006-04-17 23:45   ` Michael Snyder
2006-04-18  9:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-18 18:56       ` Michael Snyder
2006-04-19  7:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-19 18:33           ` Michael Snyder
2006-04-20  9:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-20 16:07     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-20 22:54       ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2006-04-24 20:47         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-29  0:37           ` Michael Snyder

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