Multiple inferiors and memory consumption

[Paul_Koning@Dell.com]

On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Marc Khouzam wrote:

> 
>> 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.

True if you have a centralized stub.  If you have gdbserver implemented, you can run multiple instances of that, OS permitting.

	paul