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> Does one give up anything by doing a postmortem gdb session
> rather than a live session?  Obviously one loses the ability to continue,
> but what else?  Presumably (once we coax the OS into producing the
> proper core dump) we still can do 'info threads' and 'backtrace' on
> each thread, right?

Main thing you loose is inferior function calls.  Often they are useful 
when it comes to displaying data.

Andrew