From: Petr Sorfa <petrs@caldera.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>,
charsquarra@hotmail.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: questions / suggestions about gdb
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD931AE.CB0F43E1@caldera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020508164422.25387F-100000@is>
Hi Eli,
> > I've done work along these lines and I might resume it in the future.
> > However, the idea of keeping the "retarded" process running in parallel
> > in real time is difficult and unworkable.
>
> Agreed. However, it would be a great feature to be able to run the
> program in reverse. Some debuggers actually allow that (don't ask me
> how).
There are several methods, but one them is undoing the machine code
instructions. Also it is possible to generate additional debug
information from the compiler to assist in certain tasks. I agree that
running a second process is dangerous as basically all IO is going to be
replicated, which will cause all sorts of horrors.
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-08 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-08 5:48 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-08 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 6:58 ` Petr Sorfa [this message]
2002-05-08 6:53 ` Petr Sorfa
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2002-05-08 6:55 Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello
2002-05-07 15:18 Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello
2002-05-07 13:36 Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello
2002-05-07 15:02 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-07 12:06 Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello
2002-05-07 13:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-07 11:58 Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello
2002-05-07 12:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-07 12:22 ` William A. Gatliff
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