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From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Cc: "'gdb@sourceware.org'" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Multiple inferiors and memory consumption
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFC995C.8000308@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <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/


      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-10 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09 20:31 Vladimir Prus
2012-07-10  2:29 ` Tom Tromey
2012-07-10  4:55   ` Vladimir Prus
2012-07-10 19:12     ` Tom Tromey
2012-07-10  8:04 ` Chris January
2012-07-10 19:09   ` Tom Tromey
2012-07-12 11:01     ` Chris January
2012-07-10 20:35 ` Marc Khouzam
2012-07-10 20:59   ` Paul_Koning
2012-07-10 21:06   ` Vladimir Prus [this message]

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