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What is 'The Inferior'?

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What is The Inferior when debugging Qt Applications?

e.g. found in the following message window:

The inferior stopped because it received a signal from the operating system

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FlKo Avatar asked Oct 22 '25 19:10

FlKo


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In the context of GDB, see https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Inferiors-Connections-and-Programs.html

"GDB represents the state of each program execution with an object called an inferior. An inferior typically corresponds to a process, but is more general and applies also to targets that do not have processes."

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Oliver Evans Avatar answered Oct 26 '25 14:10

Oliver Evans