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Re: GDB record patch 0.1.3.1 for GDB-6.8 release
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 22:59 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 01:51:59AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > My idea is that support for reverse execution should be exposed by
> > target methods and properties. Say target_can_reverse_p (),
> > target_set_execution_direction (...) or similar. For native
> > debugging, it might be possible to share most of the code
> > between similar targets.
>
> I want to make sure everyone realizes that patches for this have
> already been posted, by Michael Snyder. It was a while ago so it may
> have fallen out of our institutional memory :-) I recently sent
> Michael an updated version of his patches, off list.
>
> Perhaps we can get those in, providing the abstract methods and remote
> protocol support, and then see what parts of the record patch it
> simplifies?
I also want to do this. I will begin looking into, at the least,
creating a revised patch branch that brings the existing patches
up to date. Then we can discuss importing them into the main
trunk.
I am sure that the gdb record patch will benefit.