On 18 July 2010 20:52, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: > > The idea of having function entry points across the board for all > executed code would be required, allowing those links to be updated > dynamically at run-time. We could even use a memory-based lookup table > that's updated by gdb to the new entry points for the executable code. > It would be slower for execution, but for development the time savings > would be there because changes could be made on the fly, recompiled, > memory variables changed as needed, and then continue execution without > restarting the entire app.
I run the compiler a lot more than I run the debugger, so I'm not entirely sold on the idea of development time savings, but I haven't used Edit-and-Continue so I can't say how useful it is.
