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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
Does one give up anything by doing a postmortem gdb session
rather than a live session?From a design perspective, in the corefiles we get each thread's registers from the kernel; in live debugging we use thread_db. Given Linux's one-process-one-thread model at present, this has no practical significance.
... but it might if/when people start using NGPT instead of LinuxThreads. I suppose I should check to see what that project plans to do about core dumps.
From a convenience perspective, as Andrew said, you lose inferior function calls. You can't modify memory. Etc.
Thanks! - Dan
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