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Marc Khouzam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It was pointed out to me that people who have been doing reversible
> debug for a while seems to 
> have specific commands for reverse debugging and they do have a command
> for "go to time point P".
> For example http://www.undo-software.com/undodb_man.html:
> 
> bgoton <number> 
> Move forwards or backwards to the specified time, in simulated
> nanoseconds. 
> bgoton +<number> | -<number> 
> Step forward/backward the specified number of simulated nanoseconds.  

I think that's a great idea, but
a) it seems a bit tangential to this thread, since it would
not simply be an addition to MI, but to the CLI as well, and
b) gdb currently has no concept of a time point or execution
point, so we would have to discuss how to define one.