Wondering if record save should be deprecated
Guinevere Larsen
blarsen@redhat.com
Wed Jul 10 19:58:32 GMT 2024
Hi everyone!
I decided to try a bit of a different workflow for reverse debugging and
noticed that using "record save", then loading that file in a new gdb
session, and I noticed this generated an assert. The assert itself is
not too hard to solve (Hannes had a patch ready when I mentioned it in
IRC), but it had me wondering: this bug is present since GDB 10, and
there are no bugs in bugzilla about it.
In fact, searching for "record save" only has a stack overflow question
from 2.5 years ago that uses precsave, but is about a separate topic.
Everything else, including the few reverse debugging tutorials I've
seen, never mention this option.
Does it make sense for us to continue supporting this feature that was
nigh unusable for 5 releases without anyone noticing? Does anyone
reading this makes use of this feature and managed to somehow avoid that
crash?
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Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
She/Her/Hers
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