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Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> As far as I can remember (you know how much GDB development I do
>> nowadays), the only risks were if GDB crashed and left the application
>> with breakpoints inserted.  Of course, I'm in favor of GDB not
>> crashing.
> 
> I see this as an acceptable outcome of a debugger crash.  I am guessing
> that in most cases, people debug their program, and then want it killed,
> so leaving the inferior behind with breakpoints inserted won't matter
> much 

It would matter if you were debugging a live real-world app...