From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>
To: Aspertame Man <AspertameMan@att.net>
Cc: gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A possible super feature to add to gcc
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101205180415.t3cf4yx7pcw84gcw-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291581040.2886.6.camel@netbook>
Quoting Aspertame Man <AspertameMan@att.net>:
>
> Back in the 1970's when we ran fortran on an IBM machine we had this
> really powerful command called CALL FDUMP that if inserted into a
> program would send the names and values of every variable, at the time
> of its call, to a printer or file. In my opinion this was much more
> useful at times than a symbolic debugger, in scientific number crunching
> applications.
I don't see how this would be better than dumping core and resuming
execution.
I suppose you might even do a fork before dumping core, that might speed up
if you have multiple CPU cores and copy-on-write memory semantics.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-05 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-05 20:30 Aspertame Man
2010-12-05 20:41 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-12-05 23:04 ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
2010-12-06 11:49 ` Aspertame Man
2010-12-06 11:52 ` Richard Kenner
2010-12-06 12:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-06 16:44 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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