From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFA: attach to a PID using a different exec
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081113192652.GA26537@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d4gz5tab.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:18:20PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Sometimes I will start gdb like "gdb /some/path/to/gdb" and then
> "attach PID" -- where PID is actually running "/some/other/gdb".
> That is, the current exec file and the attached process disagree.
>
> Right now this usually yields an error along the lines of:
> "Cannot access memory at address 0x2e".
>
> This patch changes gdb to look at the target's notion of the exec
> file, and then switch to it if it differs from the current exec.
This seems like a bad idea to me. The canonical example is:
/usr/bin/prog.stripped &
gdb /home/drow/prog.debug $(pidof prog.stripped)
I don't want GDB to prompt my to switch to the stripped program...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 22:32 Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 22:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-11-13 22:54 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 23:24 ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-13 23:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-11-13 22:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-11-13 23:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-13 23:55 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-14 0:54 ` Michael Snyder
2008-11-14 1:53 ` Tom Tromey
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