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Re: Using reverse execution
- From: Paul Gilliam <pgilliam at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: Michael Snyder <michsnyd at cisco dot com>, shebs at apple dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:55:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: Using reverse execution
- References: <43309387.4020504@cisco.com>
- Reply-to: pgilliam at us dot ibm dot com
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:56, Michael Snyder wrote:
> And yet -- I have a target audience of engineers to whom
> I've been trying to "sell" reverse execution -- and I have
> a working implementation that I can demo, live, and a real-life
> bug that I can show to be easy to debug with reverse execution,
> and pretty damn hard otherwise. And the majority of them will
> go "wow", but they aren't jumping up and down demanding access
> to this cool facility.
How 'bout a bunch of you start a new gdb branch and add as much 'reverse execution' as would be needed to "prove your point".
If you do, I pledge to use it as my primary debugger and give copious feed back.
-=# Paul #=-