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- From: andrew@airs.COM (Andrew Evans)
- Subject: Execution trace feature for gdb
- Message-ID: <9207201607.AA02430@bugs.airs.com>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 16:07:03 GMT
- Approved: bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- I've been using gdb 4.5 on a SCO UNIX machine for some time now. I've
- been very pleased with the evolution and development of the program.
- I find gdb very useful in my work, and I have an idea which would be
- valuable to me and possibly others as well.
-
- I would like gdb to be able to provide a feature for tracing the
- execution of a running program. The output could be similar to what
- you get when stepping through a program: print the source line and any
- display expressions. An abbreviated form printing just function calls
- and their arguments (and return values) would be useful as well. The
- idea here is to eliminate a lot of return-pressing when tracing
- execution through large portions of code. I feel that this would make
- pinpointing certain bugs much easier.
-
- Although I'm not familiar with the gdb code, it seems to me that this
- would be fairly simple to do, since most of the functionality already
- exists. Some way of automating these systems is what's needed. I'm
- hoping that some gdb expert would be able to do this without much
- effort.
-
- Thanks for a great program, and I hope you find this useful.
-
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- Andrew Evans - Infinity Development Systems - Waltham, MA
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