Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20T18:15:19Z

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:16:49AM +0930, Dan Shearer wrote:
> Around 1999 Cygnus' GPL SID simulator could execute backwards.
> Development on reversibility didn't continue so I'm told because it was
> seen as "party tricks". Besides SID had flexible hardware watchpoints
> like "stop the CPU when an ethernet interrupt is fired" which reduced
> the need to search for a particular point in execution for SID's
> intended users.

Does anyone else know the history of this - was any of this code in the
version of sid in the src repository? Is any of it still there?

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