Re: [reverse RFA] no singlestep-over-BP in reverse

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>]

teawater wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:42, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org 
> <mailto:drow@false.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     If there is a breakpoint on the previous instruction, will you hit it
>     before or after de-executing that instruction?  It seems like this
>     logic should be somehow still necessary... but I can't put my finger
>     on when.
> 
> 
> I think is before exec the next instruction, the GDB will get breakpoint 
> trap.
> 
> But I found that there is a bug in inside record replay mode, I stop the 
> GDB after exec the instruction.

Aha, let's figure out a test for this question.
It's rather important.   ;-)

> Michael, how do you deal with the breakpoint in gdb-freeplay and vmware 
> record?

Both use simulated hardware breakpoints.  That is, they both
accept the Z0 message and emulate hardware breakpoint semantics
by watching the address of execution (one instruction at a time).