[Bug-gdb] GDB and GDBSERVER bug?

[cbdeja]

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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