From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22118 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2008 15:47:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 22107 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2008 15:47:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from imr2.ericy.com (HELO imr2.ericy.com) (198.24.6.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:47:14 +0000 Received: from eusrcmw750.eamcs.ericsson.se (eusrcmw750.exu.ericsson.se [138.85.77.50]) by imr2.ericy.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6TFl28V005738; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:47:02 -0500 Received: from ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se ([142.133.1.72]) by eusrcmw750.eamcs.ericsson.se with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:47:02 -0500 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Multiprogram teaser Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA0429127B@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se> In-Reply-To: <488F24C7.1000007@codesourcery.com> From: "Marc Khouzam" To: "Stan Shebs" Cc: , X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00297.txt.bz2 > By "multiprogram" I mean that there can be several different=20 > executables, each with its own code, symbols, etc. There's no=20 > assumption=20 > about how GDB interacts with the running targets created from the=20 > executables; it could launch, attach, do target remote, etc. >=20 > It's orthogonal to "multiprocess" debugging because you could=20 > have one=20 > executable and be debugging a half-dozen processes created by=20 > multiple=20 > runs of the executable. You could also have a single process whose=20 > address space includes several different executables, each at a=20 > different address. >=20 > "Multiprocess" is often taken to mean "multiprogram" as well,=20 > presumably=20 > because the case of one executable and multiple processes is not that=20 > interesting in practice. =46rom an Eclipse GUI point-of-view (user point-of-view), I get the impression that the two concepts could be treated=20 the same. The user would be interested in debugging a running/runnable process. But maybe I'm over-simplifying... Marc