From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12874 invoked by alias); 20 May 2005 21:44:22 -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 12864 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 21:44:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2005 21:44:19 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4KLiJWY012162 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 17:44:19 -0400 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4KLiIO24296; Fri, 20 May 2005 17:44:19 -0400 Received: from [172.16.24.50] (bluegiant.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4KLiEa8011974; Fri, 20 May 2005 17:44:15 -0400 Message-ID: <428E5A2E.50200@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:44:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird (X11/20050322) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, ghost@cs.msu.su Subject: Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00243.txt.bz2 > Would not it be better to have a single "reverse" command which > puts the debugger in "reverse" mode -- making step/stepi/next/nexti > go backward. > > This might be handier for UI -- after all "step" can be abbreviated > as 's', but reverse-step can't be abbreviated. This might be better > in GUI too -- instead of doubling the number of "step" commands > you'd have a single "gear" switch, that can be in either "forward" > or "reverse" position. > > - Volodya I'm certainly not opposed to that, although I lean a bit more toward the separate "analogue" commands. Fortunately, command interface is easy to implement. Maybe we will float several independant patches that each implement a different CLI to the same functionality, so we can try them all out and get a feel for them.