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Subject: Re: Time for turning off gdb by default? Or worse...
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On 8 April 2014 18:17, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Only when building the kernel.  For userland we've got nothing.  gdb
> aside, even addr2line doesn't work on userland binaries anymore.  It
> used to be hard to do debugging for arm.  Now it's impossible.

The elftoolchain-based binutils replacements (nm, addr2line, etc.)
work well, although there are a few remaining features that need to be
implemented in some of them.  They also inherently support (at least
some) cross-arch use cases.  I'm hopeful that they'll see these
features added, and be imported, before too long.