Re: questions / suggestions about gdb

["William A. Gatliff" <bgat at billgatliff dot com>]

Charles:


For remote targets, I think that gdb's tracepoints feature could do
this--- assuming the debugging agent implemented them.  Mine doesn't,
at least not yet.

More about tracepoints is available here:


http://www.gnu.org/manual/gdb-5.1.1/html_chapter/gdb_10.html
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/talks/esc-west-1999/slides/

b.g.


On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm an often user of gdb, and i was wondering, since debuggers cant go to 
> past states (no inversibility of the run), it would be nice if two instances 
> of the debugger could run synchronized with a given step offset, so when the 
> advanced instance break, the retarded instance stops, keeping an analogous 
> state which can be studied.
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> This actually can be done or is not feasible? If can't be done just now but 
> is from the debugger's developers point of view feasible, consider this a 
> feature request.
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> -Charles Quarra
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