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Subject: Re: Time for turning off gdb by default? Or worse...
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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On 10 April 2014 15:33, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2014, at 23:40, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> My (-1) action item:
>>
>> * make llvm in -HEAD generate dwarf-2 code by default so the base
>> system gdb can be again used against binaries that have debug symbols,
>> at least until a viable replacement is ready.
>
> Just do:
>
> pkg install gdb

I think you're missing the whole point.

Also, that doesn't work on MIPS. Or ARM. Or PPC. Or IA-64.



-a
(All the world isn't amd64.)