Discussing the next GDB release (GDB 7.0?)

[Marc Khouzam]

> From: Joel Brobecker
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:40 PM
> 
> > > Do we need process record and replay in 7.0 release?
> > > It's in submit process.
> 
> > And catch syscall? I think it hang too.
> 
> Neither of these features seem critical to me, but that's only
> a personal opinion. As GDB Maintainer, I think of my role as being
> the technician that implements the recommendations of the GDB
> Maintainers. If the maintainers think this is critical, then
> I'll add them to the list as blocking for the release.
> 
> That being said, this does not mean that they will not make it
> for the release. If they get checked in before we branch, then
> they're in...

For what its worth, I can't speak to the level of criticality of 
process record and replay, but we would really like to see this in 
the 7.0 release.  

I am almost ready with the Eclipse support for it (I manually 
applied the patches to GDB) and plan on doing a demo at EclipseCon.  
From what I was told, reverse debugging generates a lot of interest 
in people and would be a great addition to GDB.

Great work on the whole Reverse Debugging feature and
Process Record and Replay!

Marc