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Re: GDB record patch 0.1.3.1 for GDB-6.8 release
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 00:17 +0800, Tea wrote:
> I think the good way is let user choice. When the user goes back a few
> insns and he want to change the values of memory or register. The GDB
> willtalk clear what will happen such as the future record will
> destory, and ask user if he want to continue or not.
> Then user can choice with himself.
>
> How do you think?
I tend to agree about the user choice.
Perhaps we could have it as a user-settable mode.
Default might be "the past is read-only", ie. you
can't change the state. But you could set a mode
in which you can change the past (at the cost of
destroying the future) -- and if you try to do it
when the past is read-only, gdb could ask you if
you want to change the mode.
Is that clear? Or am I being too metaphorical?
Michael