Re: Multiple inferiors and memory consumption

Paul_Koning
2012-07-10T20:59:56Z

On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Marc Khouzam wrote:

>
>> And now for my real question -- is there any case when using
>> multi-process to debug several applications
>> not related via parent-child relationship is better than
>> running N copies of GDB?
>
> For the sake of completeness, let me mention the obvious.
> When doing remote debugging, only one GDB can connect
> to the target, so multi-process is the only option to debug
> several applications.

True if you have a centralized stub. If you have gdbserver implemented, you can run multiple instances of that, OS permitting.

paul