Return to Reverse Execution

Paul Gilliam pgilliam@us.ibm.com
Fri Jan 6 21:51:00 GMT 2006


My $0.02:

On Friday 06 January 2006 11:57, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > So here is my proposed gdb user interface.
> >   1) A set of new commands that mimic the existing ones,
> >   to include:
> > 	reverse-step (rs)
> > 	reverse-next (rn)
> > 	reverse-continue (rc)
> > 	reverse-finish (rf)
> 
> I'm fine with these names.  I think that we are not going to reach a
> consensus on whether "reverse" or "back" is better, but I don't think that
> means we should offer both; I think we should just pick one, use it
> consistently, and document it consistently.
> 
'back' has 57% fewer keystrokes than 'reverse'.

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