Re: Reversible Debugging

["Itzhak Ben-Akiva" <benakiva at gmail dot com>]

Hi Daniel,

It's great hearing from you. I checked out the source from the CVS
yesterday night.  I also started reading the mails posted to the list
about Reversible debugging. I'll dig deep into the code this evening.
Certainly, I'll come up with some questions.

Cheers,
Itzhak

On 1/9/07, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:30:33PM +0200, Itzhak Ben-Akiva wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I read on http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html - High Priority
> > Free Software Projects that the GDB maintainers are looking for
> > contributors interested in expanding the foundations of reversible
> > debugging to GDB. I'm very interested in taking over this project. Is
> > there anyone already working on it? I'll start by read the project's
> > documentation and the patches released. However, I would appreciate
> > any suggestions or guidance on how to start.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.
>
> Welcome!  No one is currently working on it; the patches I know of are
> either included in the current CVS HEAD version of GDB (for fork-based
> checkpoints on GNU/Linux), or posted to the gdb-patches mailing list.
> Search for "reverse" in the archives during March and April 2006 to
> find support for reverse execution commands which work with a remote
> simulator target which supports reverse execution.  As you can tell
> from the patches, Michael Snyder did all of that work.
>
> There's also support for reverse simulation of the xstormy16 target
> using Red Hat's "sid" simulator, posted to the sid and GDB lists in
> September 2006.
>
> That's about where we stand today.  Where we go from here is unclear -
> this message and the news post you followed contain just about
> everything I know on the subject.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery