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Re: Using reverse execution
> 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.