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Maybe it's for portability. The /proc filesystem doesn't exist on every OS supported by gdb.



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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