From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2798 invoked by alias); 7 May 2002 19:22:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2791 invoked from network); 7 May 2002 19:22:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO saturn.billgatliff.com) (209.251.101.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 May 2002 19:22:12 -0000 Received: by saturn.billgatliff.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 611BA141A3F; Tue, 7 May 2002 14:22:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 12:22:00 -0000 From: "William A. Gatliff" To: Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: questions / suggestions about gdb Message-ID: <20020507142212.A6054@saturn.billgatliff.com> Reply-To: bgat@billgatliff.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from charsquarra@hotmail.com on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 Charles: For remote targets, I think that gdb's tracepoints feature could do this--- assuming the debugging agent implemented them. Mine doesn't, at least not yet. More about tracepoints is available here: http://www.gnu.org/manual/gdb-5.1.1/html_chapter/gdb_10.html http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/talks/esc-west-1999/slides/ b.g. On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm an often user of gdb, and i was wondering, since debuggers cant go to > past states (no inversibility of the run), it would be nice if two instances > of the debugger could run synchronized with a given step offset, so when the > advanced instance break, the retarded instance stops, keeping an analogous > state which can be studied. > > This actually can be done or is not feasible? If can't be done just now but > is from the debugger's developers point of view feasible, consider this a > feature request. > > > -Charles Quarra > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com