Re: GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit

Nick Roberts
2008-06-23T21:55:40Z

> Nick> Apple GDB already has fix and continue. Couldn't that be used
> Nick> as a reference implementaton?
>
> I didn't take notes on this, but apparently fix-and-continue is kind
> of a pain to implement, and AFAICS needs IDE integration to work
> properly anyhow. The Python idea is more of a cute hack than a really
> serious thing.

I've never really used it but ISTR that Solaris dbx had this feature and there
all you needed to do when excution was stopped, was edit and compile a file,
myfile.c to myfile.o say, then do "fix myfile.o" followed by "continue" and
execution would continue with the new myfile.o patched into the executable.
This all worked from the command line.

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