Re: [RFA] Submit process record and replay fourth time, 0/8

Hui Zhu
2009-03-30T05:33:56Z

Hi guys,

I am not sure your are reviewing the p record patches or done.

Do you think all of them are ok to in? :)

Thanks,
Hui

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 23:58, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> After third time submit, there are a lot of change with process record
> and replay.  So I submit fourth time to make it clear to review.
>
> For this time, Most of changes were updated follow cvs head and a lot
> of format fixes.  Patch for target.c was removed.  Record.c was
> updated a lot of parts according to the ideas of Pedro (Much
> appreciated).
> Thanks for help of everybody in the maillist.
>
> Process record and replay make gdb can record inferior execute log and
> replay (include reverse debug).
> Now, it support I386-Linux single-thread inferior native debug.
>
> I've divided this patch into eight sections, for ease of review.
> They group as:
> 1) Architecture support layer (gdbarch.sh, gdbarch.c, gbarch.h).
> 2) New stratum of strata in target layer (target.h).
> 3) Process record and replay target (record.c, record.h, Makefile.in).
> 4) Process record and replay for Linux (linux-record.c,
> linux-record.h, Makefile.in, configure.tgt).
> 5) Event handling (infrun.c).
> 6) Intel 386 target-dependent stuff (i386-tdep.c, i386-tdep.h).
> 7) Target-dependent code for GNU/Linux i386 (i386-linux-tdep.c).
> 8) User interface and documentation.
>
> For the NEWS:
> * Process record and replay
>
>  In a architecture environment that supports ``process record and
>  replay'', ``process record and replay'' target can record a log of
>  the process execution, and replay it with both forward and reverse
>  execute commands.
>
> These patches be tested with testsuite gdb.twreverse in branch
> reverse-20081226-branch.
>
> Attachment is the compressed patches package to make get all patches easy.
>
> Thanks,
> Hui
>