From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1344 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2011 16:20:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 1332 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jun 2011 16:20:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:20:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 7935 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2011 16:20:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scottsdale.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 9 Jun 2011 16:20:21 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: pi3orama Subject: Re: ReBranch - a record-replay debugging tool Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-8-generic; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Joel Brobecker , gdb@sourceware.org References: <201106091550.54928.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106091720.17841.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 On Thursday 09 June 2011 17:06:44, pi3orama wrote: > However, currently the gdb replayer itself is a modified version of gdbserver, the code and replay performance are both bad (because gdb doesn't support control-flow only debugging now). If someone can help me to implement it in gdb, then I can remove the ugly gdbserver patch code from ReBranch, it will be perfect. Can you clarify what do you mean by "control-flow only debugging"? (Note: I haven't had the time yet to read your document on ReBranch, so I don't really know how it works or why would you need gdbserver for replay) -- Pedro Alves