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Re: Multiple inferiors and memory consumption

From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc dot khouzam at ericsson dot com>
Cc: "'gdb at sourceware dot org'" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:06:36 +0400
Subject: Re: Multiple inferiors and memory consumption
References: <4FFB3F86.2000109@codesourcery.com> <F7CE05678329534C957159168FA70DEC59791E004D@EUSAACMS0703.eamcs.ericsson.se>

On 11.07.2012 00:35, 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.

Well, yeah. Which seems like a limitation, not feature ;-)


--
Vladimir Prus
CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/

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  - From: Vladimir Prus
- RE: Multiple inferiors and memory consumption
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