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Re: Checkpoint-restart with different code
>> My question is, has anybody heard of anything that can do this?
>> Obviously, this kind of checkpointing would require compiler support, so
>> gdb wouldn't have done this, but have you heard of any systems/research
>> that has addressed this question? Thanks.
>
> Better: I know at least one production debug environment which supports
> this - Apple's Xcode. The option is called fix-and-continue. I don't
> think they combine it with checkpointing, though, only as an action on
> a running process. It's partly compiler-based and partly in their
> debug environment.
>
> Merging that with Michael's fork-based code would be fairly
> straightforward, I expect.
HP's wdb (which is derived from gdb) claims to support this with HP
compilers. I have not tried it though.
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb
randolph