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Re: [EuForum] Definition of insanity...

• Posted by Tone Škoda <tskoda at email.si> Nov 23, 2004
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Patrick Barnes wrote:
> 
> Doing the same thing twice and getting different results...

For this kind of bugs a "history debugger" would be nice: a debugger which
records all statements executed and info what values variables had. Then when
program crashes or something works wrong you can stop program execution and debug
for back, ie when debugging you can jump back to any statement in code which was
executed, not only (one statement) forward, like in normal debuggers. You could
also search for a condition, ie var=val.

The problem with such debugger would be that it program execution work quite
slow, both because it would use execute.e and would have to record all that info
to hard drive, and it would produce gigabytes large debug files.

I'm not sure if it would be really that useful, considering it is needed quite a
lot of work to create such debugger. But it could be it would be VERY useful.