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From: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gdb: add 'maintenance print record-instruction' command
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 11:30:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46b65187-a6e8-20a1-7820-37d3dde95357@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221222154338.2223678-1-blarsen@redhat.com>

On 22/12/2022 16:43, Bruno Larsen wrote:
> While chasing some reverse debugging bugs, I found myself wondering what
> was recorded by GDB to undo and redo a certain instruction. This commit
> implements a simple way of printing that information.
>
> If there isn't enough history to print the desired instruction (such as
> when the user hasn't started recording yet or when they request 2
> instructions back but only 1 was recorded), GDB warns the user like so:
>
> (gdb) maint print record-instruction
> Not enough recorded history
>
> If there is enough, GDB prints the instruction like so:
>
> (gdb) maint print record-instruction
> 4 bytes of memory at address 0x00007fffffffd5dc changed from: 01 00 00 00
> Register eflags changed: [ IF ]
> Register rip changed: (void (*)()) 0x401115 <main+15>
>
> Approved-by: Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org>

Thanks everyone who reviewed. I implemented the suggestions and pushed 
the patch

-- 
Cheers,
Bruno


      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-04 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-22 15:43 Bruno Larsen
2023-01-02 15:37 ` Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova
2023-01-03  9:00   ` Bruno Larsen
2023-01-02 16:26 ` Lancelot SIX
2023-01-02 16:56   ` Bruno Larsen
2023-01-03 16:10     ` Lancelot SIX
2023-01-03 17:04 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-04 10:30 ` Bruno Larsen [this message]

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