Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 00:26:29 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time for turning off gdb by default? Or worse... Message-ID: <20140408212629.GD21331@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <DD38131E-9A43-4EFA-A27D-ED6B64F6A35A@bsdimp.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:34:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > The gdb in the tree seems to be of very limited usefulness these days. It doesn?t seem to work on clang-enabled architectures w/o building -gdwarf-2, it doesn?t seem to work with threaded applications, and on some architectures it doesn?t seem to work at all (mips comes to mind, but it may have been the two binaries I tried). > > It seems like we?d be doing our users a favor by applying: > > diff -r 8bfca9de870e share/mk/bsd.own.mk > --- a/share/mk/bsd.own.mk > +++ b/share/mk/bsd.own.mk > @@ -266,7 +266,6 @@ WITH_HESIOD= > FREEBSD_UPDATE \ > GAMES \ > GCOV \ > - GDB \ > GNU \ > GNU_GREP_COMPAT \ > GPIB \ > @@ -355,6 +354,7 @@ WITH_HESIOD= > CLANG_EXTRAS \ > CTF \ > DEBUG_FILES \ > + GDB \ > HESIOD \ > INSTALL_AS_USER \ > LLDB \ > > to the tree, which will turn gdb off by default. It may make more sense to just remove it entirely, but I?m not sure I want to go there just yet in case there are things that I?m missing. I believe that the port will be adequate for all architectures we support, but haven?t tested this directly yet. I do know that on amd64, the port just worked, where the in-tree gdb was an epic fail. > > Comments? Do we need kgdb ? Do we need a debugger that is aware of our signal frames which are not annotated with the dwarf ? I personally need and use this. I also use standalone build of the stock gdb. Both in-tree gdb/kgdb and stock gdb are incommutable (for me). [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTRGmEAAoJEJDCuSvBvK1BXGkP/3e5CRas+yyrWYfnUBHlA00J /a0V4VFexVOj/IATSn0i4NqGO+iF7KHy3SFaq290YB11KYUg22poNHw0Klx/jK7C 4Sp7FF2FNN4Js0nuGSK+gHRLchU36X+6rKNviC6G2WVTovZ4H+RuEkHDxD/GkYtp 5j6viibiTutntAGExCLe0LyJQpvdRmnp9eJ+TNM2nH6EehY9fcET01RqpYY1SZMn T99uwHrcxyHsrDGLe0o6+KS7OaJqs0BhsVUtbFbCAHB0mcZMV4RaDiyysfGcinp+ hHjGC+uEJLz2hKzyQHw6RUsS1ncw8apASFA1GPeFblvDV9TzbxDiGPItYtEOslv3 urhd2d2QE4kH+o2DbKBwmIg2q647ADzKGAUE8uWuJcgShwHiV6hO4jWZY+dH72sJ a+UF784Vb6HUWBG0KvsAKC/hFcXaD+oggLdAnYlpQ4Uz7bwzTnDZ2h7FNoK4hXBv H0VIn/aMHI44AAaidrA1VSS5b8phgppLw5En+GoT2iUhi12P67hz0ADsG2NhmCvA YH0YkrpvqKk889IpVKHF+NnP/Zu2w7uACmYW/32+Y96JpINInZ5dBhfszEKiUiG2 GSOjpPGySMk0jzfTx2jHaLfRhyawEFV2tCjzNd2QIS0HbA26r94izM2V9IIFkrKe EgMUw9ZVOVvKeBOovQXu =grSe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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