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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
To: gdb ml <gdb@sourceware.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>,
	 	Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,
	Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	 	Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Process record and replay checked in to main trunk
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <daef60380904300102o4470ac45he41f6b72176b1947@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <daef60380904300059g191dfe0bu7773ee01f35892bf@mail.gmail.com>

Hi guys,

Process record and replay make gdb can record inferior execute log and
replay (include reverse debug).
Now, it support I386-Linux single-thread single-inferior native debug.


It was checked in today.
Thanks for evey people that spent time on process record.  Precord
can't be a part of gdb without your help.  Thank you very much.  :)


And precord still has a long way to go.  There have a lot of thing need to do:

1. Support i386 more better.  Now, precord doesn't support mmx insns,
support fp insns not very well and doesn't support a lot of insns.

2. Support more arches.  X86-64 is the first one (linux-record.c).
MIPS, ARM and so on.

3. Support memory free better.  Now, precord just can output a warning
for memumap.  It can do nothing when there is a sys_brk to free the
memory.
I had make a patch to output a warning when there is a sys_brk to free
the memory and make a plan to make precord can support free memory.
I will keep work on it.

4. Support multi-thread and multi-inferior.
I remember Pedro make a patch for reverse debug resume.  I think we
need this patch when multi-inferior check in.

5. Make record speed up and need less memory.
I have made a plan to make p record doesn't record execution log of
some functions (It can set), for example some functions in glibc.

6. Make execution log can dump out to be a file and can replay for next time.
Maybe it can make together with coredump support.  It must be a cool
function.  :)

Guys, please work on it if you interesting with some of them.  And
feel free tell me your ideas and comments.  It will help precord a
lot.


Thanks,
Hui


       reply	other threads:[~2009-04-30  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <daef60380904300059g191dfe0bu7773ee01f35892bf@mail.gmail.com>
2009-04-30 14:51 ` Hui Zhu [this message]
2009-05-02  1:57   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-05-03 15:54     ` Hui Zhu
2009-05-05 17:07 paawan oza

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