Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:29:50 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: grog@lemis.com, tlambert@primenet.com Cc: eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gdb sucks - and I need to get around it. help? Message-ID: <199902171929.OAA13214@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <199902171829.LAA19473@usr07.primenet.com>
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> Maybe if someone invents a debugger that can replay the last 10 > steps, and the last 10 control breaks, e.g., the last 10 for > loop iterations, and the entry conditions into the for loop, the > while loop before it, the function call they're in, etc.. It'd > be a lot of state to hold onto, but it would make the thing at > least minimally usable. Assuming it's not Windows, of course; if > you BSOD, you'll have a hell of a time replaying anything. 8-(. > > Are you listening, xgdb or ups? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Just F.Y.I. - the Tachyon mainframe emulator's debugger does something like this (see http://www.tachyonsoft.com/tachyon). It's not exactly germain to this discussion, but I thought I'd hold it up as an example... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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