From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5784 invoked by alias); 4 May 2009 16:46:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 5774 invoked by uid 22791); 4 May 2009 16:46:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 May 2009 16:46:29 +0000 Received: from jupiter.vmware.com (mailhost5.vmware.com [10.16.68.131]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A386913401; Mon, 4 May 2009 09:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.20.94.141] (msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com [10.20.94.141]) by jupiter.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98934DC544; Mon, 4 May 2009 09:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49FF19F2.9090908@vmware.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 16:46:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20080411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: Hui Zhu , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Process record and replay checked in to main trunk References: <833abpdvzy.fsf@gnu.org> <83ljpgd7xv.fsf@gnu.org> <83ocu9dsnf.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83ocu9dsnf.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:15:34 +0800 >> From: Hui Zhu >> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> >>> No, I mean description of when this target is useful in real life, and >>> how you will use it. In other words, put yourself in a place of >>> someone who reads the manual about the record/replay target and asks >>> him/herself "why should I care about this new feature?" Then try to >>> answer that question. And try to answer it so that the reader will >>> wonder how could she ever get by without this feature before. >>> >> I got it. I will try to deal with it. > > Thanks. > >> I am not a native speaker and poor english ability. >> Could some people help me with it? > > Don't worry about that. Just write what you can, and I will take care > of rephrasing it as needed. > > By gathering bits and pieces, I'm beginning to understand that process > record/replay is part of our support for ``reversible debugging''. If > that is true, would people agree to have a chapter by that name in the > manual, explaining what is this all about, and to move all the related > sections into that chapter? I think that's a good idea. I also still owe you a NEWS item for the reverse debug commands.