Re: Wondering if record save should be deprecated

[Luis Machado via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On 7/10/24 20:58, Guinevere Larsen via Gdb wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I decided to try a bit of a different workflow for reverse debugging and noticed that using "record save", then loading that file in a new gdb session, and I noticed this generated an assert. The assert itself is not too hard to solve (Hannes had a patch ready when I mentioned it in IRC), but it had me wondering: this bug is present since GDB 10, and there are no bugs in bugzilla about it.
> 
> In fact, searching for "record save" only has a stack overflow question from 2.5 years ago that uses precsave, but is about a separate topic. Everything else, including the few reverse debugging tutorials I've seen, never mention this option.
> 
> Does it make sense for us to continue supporting this feature that was nigh unusable for 5 releases without anyone noticing? Does anyone reading this makes use of this feature and managed to somehow avoid that crash?
> 

If it is easy enough to fix, sounds like that is the way then. As for whether people are using this,
it is hard to tell. I've been hearing more and more about people using RR for their
reverse debugging needs. Does it also save state?