I'm not sure what you mean by "gdb rr". "rr" is a separate debugger that uses the gdb frontend but a different backend. Importantly, it does not utilize break

I'm not sure what you mean by "gdb rr". "rr" is a separate debugger that uses the gdb frontend but a different backend. Importantly, it does not utilize breakpoints during the initial program execution, precisely to address your first, second, and fourth points. The third point is still a problem, since it requires the program being debugged to run under rr from the start.