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[Bug gdb/13981] New: Documentation is contradictory about treatmentof second (pid/corefile) arg
- From: "wiml at hhhh dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:37:11 +0000
- Subject: [Bug gdb/13981] New: Documentation is contradictory about treatmentof second (pid/corefile) arg
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13981
Bug #: 13981
Summary: Documentation is contradictory about treatment of
second (pid/corefile) arg
Product: gdb
Version: 7.4
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: gdb
AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
ReportedBy: wiml@hhhh.org
Classification: Unclassified
This is kind of trivial, but: the GDB documentation (eg as found at
http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/index.html) states both:
# gdb program 1234 would attach gdb to process 1234 (unless you also have a
file named 1234; gdb does check for a core file first).
and, a few pages later,
# If the second argument begins with a decimal digit, gdb will first attempt to
attach to it as a process, and if that fails, attempt to open it as a corefile.
If you have a corefile whose name begins with a digit, you can prevent gdb from
treating it as a pid by prefixing it with ./, e.g. ./12345.
Presumably these can't both be true.
(The version I'm reading from states its version as 7.4.0.20120413.)
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