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Re: Request of new __attribute__ for switch statements (elimination of the bounds check)
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, zack at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:40:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Request of new __attribute__ for switch statements (elimination of the bounds check)
> FWIW, Mercury and Ocaml both have debuggers that support backwards execution.
> It is certainly a very useful feature.
The ideal form of this is hardware emulators that store the last n-thousand
bus cycles and allow reverse execution based on this trace.