Re: A possible super feature to add to gcc

[Joern Rennecke <amylaar at spamcop dot net>]

Quoting Aspertame Man <AspertameMan@att.net>:

>  Back in the 1970's when we ran fortran on an IBM machine we had this
>  really powerful command called CALL FDUMP that if inserted into a
>  program would send the names and values of every variable, at the time
>  of its call, to a printer or file. In my opinion this was much more
>  useful at times than a symbolic debugger, in scientific number crunching
>  applications.

I don't see how this would  be better than dumping core and resuming  
execution.
I suppose you might even do a fork before dumping core, that might speed up
if you have multiple CPU cores and copy-on-write memory semantics.