From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12589 invoked by alias); 4 May 2009 11:17:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 12570 invoked by uid 22791); 4 May 2009 11:17:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il (HELO mtaout1.012.net.il) (84.95.2.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 May 2009 11:17:09 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout1.012.net.il by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KJ40090095MY600@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 14:17:00 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.230.216]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KJ4007IYA05NV20@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Mon, 04 May 2009 14:16:54 +0300 (IDT) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:17:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Process record and replay checked in to main trunk In-reply-to: To: Hui Zhu Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83ocu9dsnf.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <833abpdvzy.fsf@gnu.org> <83ljpgd7xv.fsf@gnu.org> 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/msg00057.txt.bz2 > 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?