From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4642 invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2008 20:56:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 4633 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jun 2008 20:56:27 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bluesmobile.specifix.com (HELO bluesmobile.specifix.com) (216.129.118.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:55:53 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bluesmobile.specifix.com [216.129.118.140]) by bluesmobile.specifix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404573C55E; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Who uses gdbreplay? From: Michael Snyder To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Marc Khouzam , gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <20080612202353.GA7771@caradoc.them.org> References: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA042911BE@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se> <1213297921.3601.676.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080612191849.GA3704@caradoc.them.org> <1213299561.3601.681.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080612194713.GA5474@caradoc.them.org> <1213300611.3601.690.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080612200614.GA6572@caradoc.them.org> <1213301731.3601.696.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080612202353.GA7771@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:56:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1213304150.3601.707.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-7.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:23 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:15:31PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote: > > 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. > > I've used it for testing... like once every two years. If it took any > more maintenance than it does I'd probably have dumped it by now, but > it's nice and simple :-) > > > Yeah, well -- show me an alternative. Gdbserver? Maybe. > > There isn't any good GNU alternative that I know of. But RDA isn't > much of an alternative either if you want to make a GNU program. > Just saying. > > > 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. > > Wouldn't you need a completely different sort of log file? Here is where I don't want to over-commit myself -- but the whole reason for this thread is that I am thinking I could use gdbreplay's log file exactly as is (or perhaps run a post-processor over it). Currently I am using a completely different log file. Using gdbreplay's log file is at the idea stage. ;-)