Re: GDB and GDBSERVER bug?

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Anyone?

Colin Browell


In article <address@hidden>,
  address@hidden wrote:
> We recently had a problem debugging a program remotely using GDB and
> GDBSERVER. This manifested itself as implausible backtrace information
> being displayed, breakpoints that were never reached and other
> thoroughly strange behaviour.
>
> Eventually we discovered that the remote executable program file was
not
> the same as the local file which was read-into gdb with the "file"
> command - i.e. they were not identical (nor stripped/unstripped)
copies.
>
> Surely GDB should be able to perform some sort of check between the
> local and remote files (perhaps via timestamps?) to ensure that both
> 'ends' are looking at the same executable file?
>
> Colin
>
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