GCC -fmudflap

Programs compiled with -fmudflap are given protection by GCC
against overflow conditions etc. The GCC then adds a runtime
to track&check operations on arrays etc..
To specify runtime behavior, you can pass various
options via the $MUDFLAP_OPTIONS environment variable.
If we look how the mudflap runtime is
handling these options, we have:

...
case viol_gdb:

snprintf (buf, 128, "gdb --pid=%u", (unsigned) getpid ());
system (buf);
...


Note, that mudflap is made for security reasons. For programs
like network servers or setuid binaries.
I made a bugzilla entry into the GCC bugzilla since this
should be changed somehow :)