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Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:18:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Reverse excecution and Simics testing: short report
From: teawater <teawater@gmail.com>
To: Jakob Engblom <jakob@virtutech.com>
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That is great!  Thanks Jakob.

Hui

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 20:12, Jakob Engblom <jakob@virtutech.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We have done some preliminary "smoke testing" at Virtutech to see how
> gdb-main-branch revexec works with our old proven revexec engine. The res=
ults
> are quite encouraging.
>
> Simple testing using gdb-remote to talk to Simics, with Power Architectur=
e and
> ARM targets appears to work. What worked in our specially-patched gdb-6.8
> version now works with gdb-trunk. We can stop and reverse and step etc.
> Essentially, this indicates that the reverse execution core support is OK.
>
> We also tested using MI commands to drive reverse execution. We used gdb-=
trunk
> plus our proposed MI commands, and the only problem we ran into seems to =
be the
> same reverse-finish (or preferably, uncall) operation that Teawater and M=
arc
> have been reporting. Once again, the system seems to be working fine over=
all.
>
> Best regards,
>
> /jakob
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
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>
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