Re: Multiple inferiors and memory consumption

Tom Tromey
2012-07-10T19:12:49Z

>>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:

Volodya> Though I'm thinking that single GDB might allow easier
Volodya> implementation of possible cool things like "step through DBus
Volodya> call". Or anything where direct access to two, or several,
Volodya> processes, is needed. Of course, we can do this via IDE, but
Volodya> with remote debugging that might end up awkward/slow.

Yeah, I think there may be some useful features along these lines that
could be done. There's nothing pre-canned, though.

I do tend to think that debugging multiple totally unrelated inferiors
is unusual. That is, gdb will probably provide more benefit than you
might ordinarily expect.

Though, based on bug reporting rates, I think any kind of multi-inferior
debugging is still very rare.

Tom