Also sad. Any way you can conditionalize this based on OS version that may have a newer gdb/lldb that'll support non-dwarf2? If not, that's fine.
And you're also reminding me that I asked this last time this came up too. Sorry about that :) -eric On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Dimitry Andric <[email protected]> wrote: > For FreeBSD, I was practically forced to revert the default to DWARF2, after > many complaints from our users and developers. The main reason is that our > version of gdb is still stuck in the stone (GPLv2) age, just like our version > of GNU ld (and other binutils, inasmuch we use them). We do have lldb in the > tree, but it isn't built by default, and it isn't yet feasible to use for all > our architectures. > > That said, I would personally have preferred dumping our old gdb, and forcing > users to install the much newer gdb (7.x) port, but that wasn't acceptable, > unfortunately. There is quite a large amount of inertia, and I fear DWARF2 > will still be the default for many years (basically, for the entire lifetime > of FreeBSD 11.x). > > -Dimitry > > On 12 Jun 2014, at 20:17, Eric Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sad. >> >> Why? >> >> -eric >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Brad Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Here is a patch inspired by a patch I noticed in the FreeBSD LLVM tree to >>> utilize dwarf-2 by default on OpenBSD and FreeBSD. >>> >>> -- >>> This message has been scanned for viruses and >>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >>> believed to be clean. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cfe-commits mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> cfe-commits mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits > _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
