From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9656 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2002 14:08:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9649 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2002 14:08:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU) (128.250.1.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2002 14:08:11 -0000 Received: from ceres.cs.mu.oz.au (mail@ceres.cs.mu.OZ.AU [128.250.25.4]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id AAA06701; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:08:03 +1000 (EST) Received: from fjh by ceres.cs.mu.oz.au with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 181oqA-00067F-00; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:08:02 +1000 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:57:00 -0000 From: Fergus Henderson To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Zack Weinberg , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Request of new __attribute__ for switch statements (elimination of the bounds check) Message-ID: <20021016140802.GA21593@ceres.cs.mu.oz.au> References: <20021016004929.GO15067@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00949.txt.bz2 On 16-Oct-2002, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > (If I had a nickel for every time I've wanted a "step backward" > > command in gdb...) > > : FWIW, Mercury and Ocaml both have debuggers that support backwards execution. It is certainly a very useful feature. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.