[RFA, 4 of 3] save/restore process record, part 4 (docs and news)

[Michael Snyder]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:05:27 -0700
>> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
>>
>> The fourth part of the trilogy.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> 	* docs/gdb.texinfo: Document record save/restore commands.
> 
> This needs to state the name of the node where you made the changes.

OK

>> +* New commands
>> +
>> +record save <filename> -- Save a 'process record' execution log to a file.
>> +record restore <filename -- Restore an earlier 'process record' session.
> 
> Please format these as we did with other new commands in NEWS.

Well, there's more than one format -- I'll use the most recent.

>> +Save the execution log of the inferior process into a modified core file.
> 
> "Modified" is too overloaded.  Suggest "specially formatted" instead.

OK.

>> +This execution log can then be debugged using the @code{process record}
> 
> Well, you can't really "debug the execution log", can you?  How about
> 
>   You can then replay this execution log as if you recorded it in this
>   @value{GDBN} session.

All right.  See attached.



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