Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:34:03 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time for turning off gdb by default? Or worse... Message-ID: <03C737FA-45A4-4BCE-9F7C-B2B0889C71AC@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomW8XJQEdSO7J4DKZ-o3Abk_jViK5r1mFoBDoQsOcdtMA@mail.gmail.com> References: <DD38131E-9A43-4EFA-A27D-ED6B64F6A35A@bsdimp.com> <20140408212435.GA75404@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <57ECB078-3D7A-4BE8-AA29-1ED7BB347DBD@bsdimp.com> <1396995427.81853.449.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAPyFy2BhWEzNqUvonLLpVwOKbOR42gmrw=wUZ3zbzcN4LQMDDA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomW8XJQEdSO7J4DKZ-o3Abk_jViK5r1mFoBDoQsOcdtMA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 10, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 10 April 2014 16:16, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 8 April 2014 18:17, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>=20 >>> 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. >>=20 >> 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. >=20 > Right, so can we flip back to dwarf-2 and make that stuff continue to > somewhat-work until the replacements are ready? :) You are asking the wrong question: would anybody hurt me if I just did = this? :) Warner
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