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Bug 186756 - Support reversible debugging from gdb7
Summary: Support reversible debugging from gdb7
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: cnd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Debugger (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Maria Tishkova
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Blocks: 188508
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Reported: 2010-05-26 16:11 UTC by chunkyks
Modified: 2016-07-06 14:39 UTC (History)
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Description chunkyks 2010-05-26 16:11:02 UTC 
GDB7 included support for a new feature, "reversible debugging":
http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/news/reversible.html

Basically, it allows you to step a program backward in time as well as forward, making debugging certain classes of problems massively, massively easier
Comment 1 soldatov 2010-07-29 14:45:39 UTC 
but this feature works on Linux only
Comment 2 chunkyks 2012-07-06 18:46:28 UTC 
Only targeting the lowest-common-denominator for IDE features seems negative.

This one, for example, is a big enough feature that it would incentivise me to drop out of netbeans to solve a problem, leaving my "IDE" less "I"