Re: Possible to record program execution

[ppmoore]

Charles, thanks for the reply,

I would prefer not to ;<)
But I don't see how this would help.
What I need is a way to record all lines of code executed between two
breakpoints.
Is this possible?

Thanks,
Paul



Charles Manning-2 wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 16 October 2010 02:28:45 ppmoore wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to track down a strange bug that has all of us stumped.
>>
>> I set a breakpoint at a point in the code, and start the program.
>> The breakpoint is reached and the program stops.
>> When I try step over the breakpoint to the next line of code, GDB
>> immediately indicates that the program executed normally, the intervening
>> lines of code are not executed.
> 
> Have you considered using assembler instruction level stepping? 
>>
>> To track it down, I would like to do record lines of code executed.
>> Something like the following:
>> - set the breakpoint as mentioned above, and start the program
>> - the breakpoint is reached
>> - set a breakpoint at exit(), and then somehow record all lines of code
>> executed up to the point where the program exits
>> - when the exit() breakpoint is reached, examine the recorded trace of
>> the
>> program execution, line by line. AFAIK, the trace command can't do this.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Paul
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