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To: Soam Vasani <soam.vasani@codito.com>
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Subject: Re: [reverse] A "toy" implementation of reverse execution
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Soam Vasani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've implemented some reverse debugging functionality using
> checkpoints, but without stopping at every instruction.
> Currently it only works on native i386.
> 
> Please see http://lizard.sourceforge.net/explain.html for
> more information.
> 
> regards,
> soam

Wow -- I read your description -- pretty interesting!

What do you think would be the chances of combining the
non-interactive trace process and the interactive replay
process into one -- eg. under the control of gdb -- so that
you could back up and then go forward along a different path?