From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dan Shearer <dan@shearer.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c55d28$Blat.v2.4$d279cd80@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050519012254.GZ19642@erizo.shearer.org> (message from Dan Shearer on Thu, 19 May 2005 10:52:54 +0930)
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:52:54 +0930
> From: Dan Shearer <dan@shearer.org>
>
> Imagine two new gdb commands, get-bookmark and goto-bookmark.
> get-bookmark asks the simulator for a token which uniquely identifies
> the current state of the system. goto-bookmark gives a token back to the
> simulator and asks the simulator to load system state as it was at the
> time of the bookmark. The token is an arbitary number that makes sense
> to the particular simulator. Some might count in clock cycles, others in
> milliseconds or maybe the number of the checkpoint that corresponds to
> the state at that time. All gdb knows about is the value of the
> bookmark.
>
> This gives a gdb user the capability to explore alternative futures
> without a complicated interface. A sequence might be get-bookmark,
> change a value, run for ten seconds. Break, goto-bookmark, try another
> value and run for ten seconds. Like an infinite rewind-replay facility,
> very helpful when part of the pain is getting the circumstances just
> right for the bug to appear.
>
> It would be an interesting discussion to see how bookmarks could be
> incorporated into the gdb framework.
Sounds like a very useful feature. However, I think we need to
support giving meaningful names to bookmarks, since a (more or less
arbitrary) number used by the target is going to lack any mnemonic
value.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-20 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-19 1:23 Dan Shearer
2005-05-19 13:01 ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-19 13:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-19 13:47 ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 11:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-20 13:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 13:36 ` Fabian Cenedese
2005-05-20 13:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 22:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 12:22 ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 13:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 13:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 15:40 ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2005-05-21 15:53 Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 22:11 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 23:32 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 21:59 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:51 Michael Snyder
2005-05-21 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 21:44 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:25 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:16 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-23 18:19 ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:11 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 19:02 Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 21:03 ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 15:49 Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 17:41 ` Dan Shearer
2005-05-20 22:01 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 22:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 22:43 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21 0:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 1:42 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21 1:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 1:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 15:03 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21 14:13 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-21 14:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 15:04 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-20 20:58 ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 21:35 ` Paul Schlie
2005-05-16 17:47 Dan Shearer
2005-05-16 18:04 ` Dan Shearer
2005-05-20 18:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 0:05 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-05-21 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-21 10:28 ` Russell Shaw
2005-05-21 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-21 12:55 ` Russell Shaw
2005-05-21 14:39 ` Russell Shaw
2005-05-21 14:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-21 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-21 17:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-23 19:39 ` Dan Shearer
2005-05-12 23:08 Michael Snyder
2005-05-13 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-19 13:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-19 18:46 ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-19 19:26 ` Johan Rydberg
2005-05-20 10:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 13:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 14:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-20 20:48 ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 20:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 20:38 ` Michael Snyder
2005-05-20 15:05 ` Vladimir Prus
2005-05-20 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 18:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-20 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-20 19:27 ` Stan Shebs
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