Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:21:22 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time for turning off gdb by default? Or worse... Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomW8XJQEdSO7J4DKZ-o3Abk_jViK5r1mFoBDoQsOcdtMA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2BhWEzNqUvonLLpVwOKbOR42gmrw=wUZ3zbzcN4LQMDDA@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>
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On 10 April 2014 16:16, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. Right, so can we flip back to dwarf-2 and make that stuff continue to somewhat-work until the replacements are ready? :) -a
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