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[Bug external/13207] New: Provide a script to advance two versionsof a program and find where they diverge.
- From: "dje at google dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:40:39 +0000
- Subject: [Bug external/13207] New: Provide a script to advance two versionsof a program and find where they diverge.
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13207
Bug #: 13207
Summary: Provide a script to advance two versions of a program
and find where they diverge.
Product: gdb
Version: HEAD
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: external
AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
ReportedBy: dje@google.com
Classification: Unclassified
Sometimes one has a debugging situation where a program worked yesterday, it
doesn't work today, and it's taking awhile to figure out where the breakage is.
IWBN to have a script that could advance two versions of a program and find
where they diverge. Determining divergence can be tricky - functions may not
live at the same address and may be different (however slightly). Maybe the
basic machinery of advance/test/repeat could be parameterized to handle the
easier scenarios and leave it at that.
Such a script feels like more of a contrib-like patch, than part of gdb proper,
but it still feels like something gdb could/should provide.
When it works, it's a real timesaver, and the basic infrastructure shouldn't be
that hard to write in python (and if it is then we've found good places where
python needs to be extended).
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