- "target record-full" which allows you to track what's going on so you can go backwards and potentially bisect where in a running program something goes wrong. It's not perfect; it seems to have trouble with memset and a few other functions, but it's really good.
- Hardware watch points. Once you know what memory is getting clobbered, have the hardware report all changes so you can see who's responsible.
- Hey, wait, what? I really wish I had placed a breakpoint back there. With "target record-full" and "reverse-continue," you can. Set the breakpoint and then reverse continue, and time runs backwards until your breakpoint gets hit.
- I didn't need it for this session, but "set follow-fork-mode" is very handy for certain applications. There's even a way to debug both the parent and child of a fork at the same time, although I always have to go look up the syntax. It seems like it ought to be "set follow-fork-mode both," and there was once a debugger that used that syntax, but Gdb uses different syntax for the same concept.
Cudos to GDB Contributors
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