Intrusive GDB Symbol Lookup when debugging remotely

[Andrew Cagney]

Dave Trollope wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> No-one responded to this, but I'm sure someone on this list understands 
> how difficult it would be to implement a new handler for a signal to run 
> gdb in a "Local" mode when connected to a gdbserver. I'd really 
> appreciate an estimate of how much effort this would be, or where in the 
> code to start looking.

In theory, "target async-remote" does what you're looking for - it runs 
the inferior in the background letting you interact with the local 
symbol table.

In reality though, that code hasn't been tested in years .....  We need 
something like native GNU/Linux being made async giving us a mainstream 
async target.

Andrew