From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27247 invoked by alias); 7 May 2002 19:06:59 -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 27236 invoked from network); 7 May 2002 19:06:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (209.185.241.120) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 May 2002 19:06:58 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 7 May 2002 12:06:58 -0700 Received: from 200.11.240.6 by lw3fd.law3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 07 May 2002 19:06:57 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.11.240.6] From: "Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello" To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Bcc: Subject: Re: questions / suggestions about gdb Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 12:06:00 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 May 2002 19:06:58.0246 (UTC) FILETIME=[5C4FFE60:01C1F5FA] X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 On Tue, 7 May 2002 15:00:37 -0400 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Charles James Leonardo Quarra >Cappiello wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm an often user of gdb, and i was wondering, since debuggers cant go >to > > past states (no inversibility of the run), it would be nice if two > > instances of the debugger could run synchronized with a given step >offset, > > so when the advanced instance break, the retarded instance stops, >keeping > > an analogous state which can be studied. > > > > This actually can be done or is not feasible? If can't be done just now >but > > is from the debugger's developers point of view feasible, consider this >a > > feature request. > >GDB just gained a feature that'll do almost what you want: the >`generate-core-file' command. You can then debug the new corefile to >examine the frozen state. > can i activate the 'generate-core-file' a few steps before the program breaks? -Charles Quarra _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx