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Re: attach u/i oddity

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:54:23 -0600
Subject: Re: attach u/i oddity
References: <CADPb22QEk4VA45fi338xPVevDnp8fKbsPWKGH4E9iZLwYrBSyw@mail.gmail.com> <20111011061636.GR3802@adacore.com> <201110111217.21689.pedro@codesourcery.com>

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

References:
- attach u/i oddity
  - From: Doug Evans
- Re: attach u/i oddity
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: attach u/i oddity
  - From: Pedro Alves

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