From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Using reverse execution
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8xxwn3em.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432B08CA.8070902@apple.com> (message from Stan Shebs on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:02:50 -0700)
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:02:50 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >What features can be implemented without hacking the kernel?
> >
> If you limited reversing to designated regions, and single-stepped
> every instruction in the range, collected the exact data changes
> (by disassembling the instructions) and only allowed examination
> rather than re-executing from any given point, all that just needs
> existing GDB machinery. Is it useful?
Sorry, you lost me. Can you describe this in smaller words?
> At least somebody thinks so, because I just described how the
> omniscient debugger works (using Java bytecodes instead of machine
> instructions).
As I understood the description of the omniscient debugger, it would
be very useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 1:17 Stan Shebs
2005-09-13 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-14 0:36 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-14 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-14 22:34 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-15 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-15 5:36 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-15 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-15 18:02 ` Jason Molenda
2005-09-15 20:12 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-16 10:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-16 14:00 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-16 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-16 18:03 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-16 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-09-23 23:20 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-16 17:50 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2005-09-16 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-13 18:11 ` Min Xu (Hsu)
2005-09-13 22:01 ` Jim Blandy
2005-09-14 0:42 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-16 12:03 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2005-09-20 22:47 Michael Snyder
2005-09-20 22:56 Michael Snyder
2005-09-20 23:14 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2005-09-21 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-21 4:00 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2005-09-21 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-21 20:37 ` Michael Snyder
2005-09-24 0:46 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-24 1:10 ` Michael Snyder
2005-09-24 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-27 22:00 ` Jim Blandy
2005-09-21 4:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-21 16:56 ` Paul Gilliam
2005-09-23 23:44 ` Stan Shebs
2005-09-20 23:11 Michael Snyder
2005-09-24 0:07 ` Stan Shebs
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