Computer Science – Operating Systems
Scientific paper
2009-10-27
Computer Science
Operating Systems
20 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables; software at urdb.sourceforge.net
Scientific paper
A new style of temporal debugging is proposed. The new URDB debugger can employ such techniques as temporal search for finding an underlying fault that is causing a bug. This improves on the standard iterative debugging style, which iteratively re-executes a program under debugger control in the search for the underlying fault. URDB acts as a meta-debugger, with current support for four widely used debuggers: gdb, MATLAB, python, and perl. Support for a new debugger can be added in a few hours. Among its points of novelty are: (i) the first reversible debuggers for MATLAB, python, and perl; (ii) support for today's multi-core architectures; (iii) reversible debugging of multi-process and distributed computations; and (iv) temporal search on changes in program expressions. URDB gains its reversibility and temporal abilities through the fast checkpoint-restart capability of DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing). The recently enhanced DMTCP also adds ptrace support, enabling one to freeze, migrate, and replicate debugging sessions.
Arya Kapil
Cooperman Gene
Denniston Tyler
Polyakov Artem
Solanki Praveen S.
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