From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26375 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2007 06:54:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 26365 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2007 06:54:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (HELO nf-out-0910.google.com) (64.233.182.186) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:53:56 +0000 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n28so26105nfc for ; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:53:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.127.15 with SMTP id z15mr3182706buc.1168325633739; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:53:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.173.15 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:53:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:54:00 -0000 From: "Itzhak Ben-Akiva" To: "Itzhak Ben-Akiva" , "Michael Snyder" , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Reversible Debugging In-Reply-To: <20070108223606.GA28658@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070108223606.GA28658@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00135.txt.bz2 Hi Daniel, It's great hearing from you. I checked out the source from the CVS yesterday night. I also started reading the mails posted to the list about Reversible debugging. I'll dig deep into the code this evening. Certainly, I'll come up with some questions. Cheers, Itzhak On 1/9/07, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:30:33PM +0200, Itzhak Ben-Akiva wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I read on http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html - High Priority > > Free Software Projects that the GDB maintainers are looking for > > contributors interested in expanding the foundations of reversible > > debugging to GDB. I'm very interested in taking over this project. Is > > there anyone already working on it? I'll start by read the project's > > documentation and the patches released. However, I would appreciate > > any suggestions or guidance on how to start. > > > > I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions. > > Welcome! No one is currently working on it; the patches I know of are > either included in the current CVS HEAD version of GDB (for fork-based > checkpoints on GNU/Linux), or posted to the gdb-patches mailing list. > Search for "reverse" in the archives during March and April 2006 to > find support for reverse execution commands which work with a remote > simulator target which supports reverse execution. As you can tell > from the patches, Michael Snyder did all of that work. > > There's also support for reverse simulation of the xstormy16 target > using Red Hat's "sid" simulator, posted to the sid and GDB lists in > September 2006. > > That's about where we stand today. Where we go from here is unclear - > this message and the news post you followed contain just about > everything I know on the subject. > > -- > Daniel Jacobowitz > CodeSourcery >