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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:18:29 +0800
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>>
>> +@kindex record dump
>> +@kindex rec dump
>> +@item record dump [@var{file}]
>> +@itemx rec dump [@var{file}]
>> +Dump the execution records of the inferior process to a core file.
> 
> "A core file"? you didn't really mean that, did you?

Yep!  That was my suggestion.  We use a core file to capture the
state at the beginning of the recording, then add an extra bfd
section to the corefile and write the recording log into that.