From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: msnyder@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] checkpoint / restart, and multi-fork debugging
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uoe3qjqmx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bqzqwvjy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (message from Tom Tromey on 09 Dec 2005 00:58:57 -0700)
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: 09 Dec 2005 00:58:57 -0700
>
> One thing I didn't see mentioned in the docs is the effect on gdb of a
> 'restart'. I assume that new breakpoints, watchpoints, etc, are kept
> instead of reverting to the state at the checkpoint. Maybe this is
> worth mentioning.
I agree this is worth mentioning.
> A nice problem this solves is handling watchpoints when the system has
> address space randomization. I run into this all the time when
> debugging -- back before this feature was added to the OS I would put
> a fair amount of effort into finding some address to watch in one
> debug session, then restart the inferior with a watchpoint set.
> Randomization made this impossible; but with this patch I could just
> make a checkpoint at 'main'.
Perhaps we should mention this as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-09 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 15:11 Michael Snyder
2005-12-09 14:23 ` Tom Tromey
2005-12-09 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-12-09 20:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-10 9:06 ` Michael Snyder
2005-12-10 9:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-13 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-10 7:24 ` Michael Snyder
2005-12-09 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-10 8:59 ` Michael Snyder
2005-12-12 23:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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