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RE: real world reverse debugging success story
- From: Marc Khouzam <marc dot khouzam at ericsson dot com>
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>, "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:18 -0500
- Subject: RE: real world reverse debugging success story
- References: <4AFB54CA.9090900@vmware.com>
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>
> Stats: used an 8 million instruction cache, running as a
> ring buffer. Had to record over 80 million instructions
> before I tripped the bug. Saved core file with record log
> was 250 megabytes, and reloaded fine.
Very impressive!
How was the responsiveness? I assume you didn't step
over all those instuctions ;-) So, you must have run the program
and have it be recorded for a while. I'm wondering if the execution
was annoyingly slow, or if it was ok.
Thanks