Reverse debugging for arm baremetal targets?

[Hui Zhu]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 07/22/2013 02:38 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>
>> But the OS dependent part seems to be missing there:
>> arm-tdep.h:
>>     /* Parse swi insn args, sycall record.  */
>>    int (*arm_swi_record) (struct regcache *regcache);
>>   - which does not seem to be set anywhere
>>
>
> I raised this question during the code review, and Oza (the author) wanted
> to do them in phase 3, which handles OS related stuff, such as syscall.
> What we have in trunk is phase 2.
>
>
>> So the current set_gdbarch_process_record initialization could be possibly
>> moved to arm-tdep.c.  But I did not play more with it.
>
>
> Right, the existing Oza's work in trunk is about ARM reversed debugging,
> without OS stuff.  Probably we should call set_gdbarch_process_record in
> arm-tdep.c, but not sure how good or bad the results are.

I think you should call it arm process record but not reverse debug.

Reverse debug depend on the target support but I don't think call prec
as reverse debug is right.

Thanks,
Hui

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