Re: [RFA] checkpoint / restart, and multi-fork debugging

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-09T14:37:04Z

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:23:34PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

Amen!

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