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Re: questions / suggestions about gdb
- From: "William A. Gatliff" <bgat at billgatliff dot com>
- To: Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello <charsquarra at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:22:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: questions / suggestions about gdb
- References: <F109xIRRcOHuFdq08Rm0000fb63@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: bgat at billgatliff dot com
Charles:
For remote targets, I think that gdb's tracepoints feature could do
this--- assuming the debugging agent implemented them. Mine doesn't,
at least not yet.
More about tracepoints is available here:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gdb-5.1.1/html_chapter/gdb_10.html
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/talks/esc-west-1999/slides/
b.g.
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm an often user of gdb, and i was wondering, since debuggers cant go to
> past states (no inversibility of the run), it would be nice if two instances
> of the debugger could run synchronized with a given step offset, so when the
> advanced instance break, the retarded instance stops, keeping an analogous
> state which can be studied.
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> This actually can be done or is not feasible? If can't be done just now but
> is from the debugger's developers point of view feasible, consider this a
> feature request.
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> -Charles Quarra
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