From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFA: attach to a PID using a different exec
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k5b74dnz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081113192652.GA26537@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 14\:26\:52 -0500")
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>> 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.
Daniel> This seems like a bad idea to me. The canonical example is:
Daniel> /usr/bin/prog.stripped &
Daniel> gdb /home/drow/prog.debug $(pidof prog.stripped)
Daniel> I don't want GDB to prompt my to switch to the stripped program...
Well, you can answer "no". So while it is inconvenient, it seems
minor. On the other hand, the current situation can leave one with a
nonsensical setup. This bites me a lot more than I should probably
admit.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 19:41 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
2008-11-13 22:54 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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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