The question about the relation between gdb and the programme deb ugged

[Kevin Buettner]

On Jun 10, 10:11am, Lawrence Lee (Shanghai) wrote:

> I want to know the relation between the gdb and the object programme being
> debugged. Does the gdb load the object programme into  gdb's memory spaces
> so that gdb can access the varible of the programme? Or the gdb and the
> object programme are different processes which have different memory
> spaces?

The latter; gdb and the program being debugged are separate processes.

Kevin