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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Multiple inferiors and memory consumption
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87629vh1ls.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFBB5C3.3000601@codesourcery.com> (Vladimir Prus's message of	"Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:55:31 +0400")

>>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:

Volodya> Though I'm thinking that single GDB might allow easier
Volodya> implementation of possible cool things like "step through DBus
Volodya> call". Or anything where direct access to two, or several,
Volodya> processes, is needed. Of course, we can do this via IDE, but
Volodya> with remote debugging that might end up awkward/slow.

Yeah, I think there may be some useful features along these lines that
could be done.  There's nothing pre-canned, though.

I do tend to think that debugging multiple totally unrelated inferiors
is unusual.  That is, gdb will probably provide more benefit than you
might ordinarily expect.

Though, based on bug reporting rates, I think any kind of multi-inferior
debugging is still very rare.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-10 19:12 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 [this message]
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

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