From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9762 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2005 16:56:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9299 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Sep 2005 16:56:00 -0000 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com (HELO e32.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.150) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:55:59 +0000 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8LGtaOA017972 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:55:36 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j8LGtvaP397590 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:55:57 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8LGtuXa027226 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:55:57 -0600 Received: from dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com (dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.22.95]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8LGtuNM027184; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:55:56 -0600 From: Paul Gilliam Reply-To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Using reverse execution Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:56:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Michael Snyder , shebs@apple.com References: <43309387.4020504@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <43309387.4020504@cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509210955.56396.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:56, Michael Snyder wrote: > And yet -- I have a target audience of engineers to whom > I've been trying to "sell" reverse execution -- and I have > a working implementation that I can demo, live, and a real-life > bug that I can show to be easy to debug with reverse execution, > and pretty damn hard otherwise. And the majority of them will > go "wow", but they aren't jumping up and down demanding access > to this cool facility. How 'bout a bunch of you start a new gdb branch and add as much 'reverse execution' as would be needed to "prove your point". If you do, I pledge to use it as my primary debugger and give copious feed back. -=# Paul #=-