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by bobbyi_settv 1964 days ago
Maybe it's for portability. The /proc filesystem doesn't exist on every OS supported by gdb.
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kelnos 1964 days ago
Sure, but I'm sure there are tons of Linux-specific things in gdb behind #ifdefs already; this seems like a pretty worthwhile thing that justifies adding one more.
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