From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32604 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2007 21:59:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 32587 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jan 2007 21:59:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (HELO wr-out-0506.google.com) (64.233.184.227) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:59:23 +0000 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i31so160306wra for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:59:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.49.19 with SMTP id w19mr597094agw.1168466361988; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.104.9 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:59:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:59:00 -0000 From: "Uri Moszkowicz" To: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: c++/2208: Checkpoints not saved on restart Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <17829.23466.488971.921831@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1167813680.9414.4.camel@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17829.23466.488971.921831@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 082e092c2ece5d37 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00183.txt.bz2 Assuming bug #2209 were fixed, yes you could. It would be nice if that were at least an option though, if not the default. I think of them as similar to breakpoints. Perhaps GDB should distinguish between temporary checkpoints and regular checkpoints, with the latter being permanent of course. On 1/10/07, Nick Roberts wrote: > > While I'm glad to have checkpointing support, its not as useful as it > > may appear since you can only revert to a saved checkpoint once. After > > restarting a saved checkpoint it is lost. > > Presumably when you restart you can create another checkpoint if you wish > to go back there again. > > -- > Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob >