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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:17:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc 6/8] record disas: omit function names by default
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To: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
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> From: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
> CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
> 	"markus.t.metzger@gmail.com" <markus.t.metzger@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:42:44 +0000
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> 
> Jan described it nicely above: "it's a 'backtrace' into history, not into upper frames".

So it isn't a backtrace in the sense that we use this term in GDB (or
any other debugger).

>   record disassemble ......... instructions
>   record list ....................... source lines
>   record backtrace ............. functions

Then why not

   record instruction-history
   record source-lines-history
   record function-call-history

?