From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27737 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2011 19:55:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 27722 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Oct 2011 19:55:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:54:53 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9JJsRq1005778 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:54:27 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9JJsQ63001417; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:54:26 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9JJsNbF007956; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:54:24 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Doug Evans Subject: Re: attach u/i oddity References: <20111011061636.GR3802@adacore.com> <201110111217.21689.pedro@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <201110111217.21689.pedro@codesourcery.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:17:21 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2011-10/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 Pedro> Maybe what we need a `warning' so that the surprise is gone: Pedro> "warning: assuming process is running the loaded executable `FOO' Pedro> which is different from the executable the target reports the process " Pedro> is running. Unload it with the `file' command to make gdb find and load Pedro> the target reported executable automatically." It seems like a decent idea to me. I wrote a patch to change the behavior here once: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-11/msg00279.html The ensuing thread points out the different use cases where people really want to do this. Tom