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From: "Jakob Engblom" <jakob@virtutech.com>
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Subject: RE: [FYI] tutorial for process record and reverse debugging
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:32:00 -0000
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> > Note that we had a discussion a while ago about adding a general "go to
point
> in
> > time in recording/reverse execution history" command, which would kind of
solve
> > this as a special case (provided you can find the "last" time).   We can
> already
> > do this in Simics, but there is no support in the gdb-serial protocol or the
> gdb
> > CLI or MI to access the function.  The undodb people had the same issue.
> 
> What would you think of "qBookmark" to request a bookmark id,
> and "QBookmark:id" to "set" the bookmark (that is, to go back
> to that machine state)?

That would certainly work with Simics. 

/jakob