Re: Process record and replay checked in to main trunk

Michael Snyder
2009-05-04T16:46:40Z

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:15:34 +0800
>> From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
>> 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.