Multiple inferiors and memory consumption

[Marc Khouzam]

> 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.

Marc