Re: Who uses gdbreplay?

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>]

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:06 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:56:51PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > Oh, absolutely.  No worries.
> > 
> > gdbreplay is elegant in its simplicity, I don't want to 
> > compromise that.  I'm actually working in rda.  
> 
> Ok, I think I've gotten turned around.  Were you talking about
> improvements to gdbreplay on the one hand and a separate program for
> traces?

I guess I'm talking about a separate program that does 
essentially a huge superset of gdbreplay's current functionality, 
using the same input logfile as is currently used by gdbreplay.

In a sense a replacement for gdbreplay, but the existing
gdbreplay doesn't have to go away, if it serves a purpose.

> It's kind of a shame you're working in rda.  I'm sure it's nice and
> all - but it never got contributed to the FSF, and I'm not entirely
> happy about new bits of GDB development using it because of that.
> It's still got RH copyright notices all over it.

Yeah, well -- show me an alternative.  Gdbserver?  Maybe.

In principle the stuff I'm writing could go into gdbserver
or some other debug-agent codebase.

This is an extension of a different project I was working on,
using rda.  It just occurred to me that I could make it use
the log files that are used by gdbreplay, and make them 
suddenly really useful.