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[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Debuggers don’t go back; you have to restart and run through the whole thing

Yes, they do: https://rr-project.org/

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Reverse-Execution.html

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

This does sound very interesting. I should have said the debuggers I'm familiar with don't do it. Or if they do, I have no idea how.

Certainly setting breakpoints on certain conditions instead of just a line, would help a lot. Being able to step backwards through the execution even more so.