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Re: reverse for GDB/MI
Tomas Holmberg wrote:
I am not quite sure about adding new set of commands for that. Can we use
--reverse option, thereby not introducing new commands?
Adding a reverse option to the existing commands is possible. But I do
not think it is a good idea. It is not always obvious what should
happen when running a standard command in reverse. I consider the
reverse commands as a new set commands and not a variant of the old.
That's correct. The new commands (eg. reverse-next) account for
the differences between the standard commands and what should
happen in reverse.
However, note that (set exec-dir reverse ; next) is equivalent
to "reverse-next". It will do the right thing.