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Article #10073[pacbell!uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov: interesting debugger feature]
From: rms
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 16:19
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 16:19
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Return-Path: <pacbell!uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov> From: pacbell!uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 02:44:09 -0700 Apparently-To: ai.mit.edu!rms Return-Path: <phr@premenos.UUCP> Received: by premenos.premenos.com (5.59/26-eef) id AA14954; Wed, 11 Jul 90 22:14:38 PDT Date: Wed, 11 Jul 90 22:14:38 PDT From: Paul Rubin <phr@premenos.UUCP> To: pacbell!ames!ai.mit.edu!rms Subject: interesting debugger feature The new Turbo C debugger allegedly lets you single step through code backwards. It sounds like it makes some kind of undo record for every machine instruction it runs forwards. The amount of recording it can do is surely somewhat limited, but it still sounds useful. I have heard that it doesn't work across function calls.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5053,1ad90f4334acfb1c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5053,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-07-12 16:34:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AI.MIT.EDU!rms From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Subject: [pacbell!uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov: interesting debugger feature] Message-ID: <9007121619.AA18862@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 16:19:38 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 19 Posted: Thu Jul 12 17:19:38 1990