From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17717 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2009 23:59:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 17707 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Dec 2009 23:59:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:59:44 +0000 Received: from mailhost3.vmware.com (mailhost3.vmware.com [10.16.27.45]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D37F36033; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.20.94.141] (msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com [10.20.94.141]) by mailhost3.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127E4CD90B; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:59:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B218B30.4010501@vmware.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:59:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20090624) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paawan oza CC: Hui Zhu , "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: porting reversible on arm/mips References: <816087.35180.qm@web112515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <816087.35180.qm@web112515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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: 2009-12/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 paawan oza wrote: > Hi, > > there are pending tasks as mentioned in > http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ReverseDebug > > I would like take one of the archs and port reversible on it. > > If I correctly understand the task. > > -> mips/arm architecture involves, complete writing to arm/mips instruction set and parsing of the same. > > -> I assume that there is no basic framework done for mips/arm, such as function call recording, instruction parsing etc, everything has to be written from beginning. > > Let me know If my understanding is correct of the current state of code. I think Hui has already done some work for Mips record/replay. Maybe you and he could work together on that? If you want to work on Arm, as far as I know, you would have that field all to yourself.