Discussing the next GDB release (GDB 7.0?)

[Michael Snyder]

Marc Khouzam wrote:
>> 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.  

Ditto!


> 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.

Ditto.  Last year I gave a talk about being a GDB maintainer
at the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group, and the entire Q&A
period was taken up by "When can we get this reverse debugging
of which you speak?"

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