attach u/i oddity

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Wed Oct 19 20:03:00 GMT 2011


Pedro> Maybe what we need a `warning' so that the surprise is gone:

Pedro>  "warning: assuming process is running the loaded executable `FOO'
Pedro>   which is different from the executable the target reports the process "
Pedro>   is running.  Unload it with the `file' command to make gdb find and load
Pedro>   the target reported executable automatically."

It seems like a decent idea to me.

I wrote a patch to change the behavior here once:

    http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-11/msg00279.html

The ensuing thread points out the different use cases where people
really want to do this.

Tom



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