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Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:55:03 +0200, Mathew Yeates wrote:
>> How do people deal with running to a breakpoint that takes 10 minutes
>> to get to? It would be great if I could run to the breakpoint once,
>> save some info, and in the future just return to the breakpoint and
>> keep running from there.
> 
> See info '(gdb)Checkpoint/Restart' but it does not work with threads and it is
> not a commonly used feature (at least I have never used it myself).

Jan, I think he wants to quit his gdb session and return to it.
Checkpoints aren't preserved across quitting and restarting gdb.