[Libreoffice-qa] rr - lightweight recording & deterministic debugging

Robinson Tryon bishop.robinson at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 05:28:37 PST 2014


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 14.12.2014 22:26, Robinson Tryon wrote:
>> Auto-replay of bug repro steps sounds pretty awesome for various
>> reasons, especially for drudge work such as re-testing MAB's...
> ...
> well that's not what rr does.  rr records a single execution and can
> replay it, which is useful to track down bugs that are very hard to
> reproduce - but the replay only works with identical program binaries.

Ah, fair enough. I haven't had time to read about it :-) Any tool that
can help us track-down bugs sounds like a win in my book!

Cheers,
--R

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Robinson Tryon
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