Re: Discussing the next GDB release (GDB 7.0?)

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Marc Khouzam wrote:
> > From: Joel Brobecker
> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:40 PM
> >
> > > > Do we need process record and replay in 7.0 release?
> > > > It's in submit process.
> > > And catch syscall? I think it hang too.
> > Neither of these features seem critical to me, but that's only
> > a personal opinion. As GDB Maintainer, I think of my role as being
> > the technician that implements the recommendations of the GDB
> > Maintainers. If the maintainers think this is critical, then
> > I'll add them to the list as blocking for the release.
> >
> > That being said, this does not mean that they will not make it
> > for the release. If they get checked in before we branch, then
> > they're in...
>
> For what its worth, I can't speak to the level of criticality of 
> process record and replay, but we would really like to see this in 
> the 7.0 release.  

Ditto!


> I am almost ready with the Eclipse support for it (I manually 
> applied the patches to GDB) and plan on doing a demo at EclipseCon.  
> From what I was told, reverse debugging generates a lot of interest 
> in people and would be a great addition to GDB.

Ditto.  Last year I gave a talk about being a GDB maintainer
at the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group, and the entire Q&A
period was taken up by "When can we get this reverse debugging
of which you speak?"

> Great work on the whole Reverse Debugging feature and
> Process Record and Replay!
>
> Marc