I'm using this exact technique in my daily work right now! :-). It's an embedded DSP doing real-time signal processing for digital radio, and the technique yo

I'm using this exact technique in my daily work right now! :-). It's an embedded DSP doing real-time signal processing for digital radio, and the technique you describe allows the execution flow leading up to a crash to be determined, without the timing jitter introduced by the "real" debugger.