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From: Mathew Yeates <mat.yeates@gmail.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: help with loading core files
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTilIQH5N3VkD2oEsFNnTzOVMP4lCyLquupljvoF-@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C488940.8020503@vmware.com>

yeah, I was just looking at "checkpoint". It seems to me that if gdb
is able to create checkpoints, it should also be able to do what I
want (restart and immediately go to a certain location)

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> wrote:
> Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:55:03 +0200, Mathew Yeates wrote:
>>>
>>> How do people deal with running to a breakpoint that takes 10 minutes
>>> to get to? It would be great if I could run to the breakpoint once,
>>> save some info, and in the future just return to the breakpoint and
>>> keep running from there.
>>
>> See info '(gdb)Checkpoint/Restart' but it does not work with threads and
>> it is
>> not a commonly used feature (at least I have never used it myself).
>
> Jan, I think he wants to quit his gdb session and return to it.
> Checkpoints aren't preserved across quitting and restarting gdb.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-22 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-22 17:04 Mathew Yeates
2010-07-22 17:07 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-22 17:16   ` Mathew Yeates
2010-07-22 17:26     ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-22 17:28       ` Mathew Yeates
2010-07-22 17:29         ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-22 17:55           ` Mathew Yeates
2010-07-22 18:07             ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-22 18:09               ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-22 18:14                 ` Mathew Yeates [this message]
2010-07-22 18:18                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-28  9:06                     ` Steffen Dettmer
2010-07-28 12:24                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-28  9:03             ` Steffen Dettmer

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