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Just yesterday I was trying to dive into a container running some c program and I took a look at gdb... again, for the n time.. and the whole ordeal of the gdbserver and gdb as a client and the symbol table yadda yadda yadda I just rebuild the program with some printfs displaying data, filename and line number and re ran it. Done. gdb is stifling.

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Have you tried using a Time Travel Debugger to record the process and then just debug the recording outside?

You can use rr or LiveRecorder (commercial product, which I work on) to generate the recording non-interactively then debug it "locally". Avoids the need to set up a client/server configuration, so long as you don't need to modify variable values at runtime, etc.

Containers are the real ordeal and not just here.

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