I see where you're coming from, in the past I've gdb'd... gdb itself to figure out an obscure bug. It gets a bit confusing at times (better use different prompt

I see where you're coming from, in the past I've gdb'd... gdb itself to figure out an obscure bug. It gets a bit confusing at times (better use different prompts at least) but this way you could step through the debugger's code itself instead of deciphering strace's output for instance.