I can't speak for totalview, but as a developer on Darwin, adding -gstabs+ enables the clean use of gdb and would help immensely!
On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Resurrecting this orphaned discussion... > > Peter: so what exactly do you need? -gstabs or -gstabs+ when compiling these > files on Darwin? (or, more specifically, whenever the back-end compiler > supports one/both of these flags) > > > On Jun 9, 2010, at 11:43 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote: > >> >> >> Jeff Squyres wrote: >>> On Jun 4, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Peter Thompson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> It was suggested by our CTO that if these files were compiled as to >>>> produce STABS debug info, rather than DWARF, then the debug info would >>>> be copied into the executables and shared libraries, and we would then >>>> be able to debug with Open MPI without a problem. I'm not sure if this >>>> is the best place to offer that suggestion, but I imagine it's not a bad >>>> place to start. ;-) >>>> >>> >>> Having just moved this to the "devel" list... >>> >>> I don't think we'd mind doing what you propose if it's not too icky. These >>> files are explicitly there for debuggers like TV, after all. >>> >>> So how do we do that? (I don't know anything about STABS or DWARF) >>> >>> >> >> Extracted from "man gcc" on Darwin host: >> >> >> -gstabs >> Produce debugging information in stabs format (if that is >> supported), without GDB >> extensions. This is the format used by DBX on most BSD >> systems. On MIPS, Alpha and >> System V Release 4 systems this option produces stabs >> debugging output which is not >> understood by DBX or SDB. On System V Release 4 systems this >> option requires the GNU >> assembler. >> >> -gstabs+ >> Produce debugging information in stabs format (if that is >> supported), using GNU >> extensions understood only by the GNU debugger (GDB). The >> use of these extensions is >> likely to make other debuggers crash or refuse to read the >> program. >> >> >> >> -- >> Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov >> Future Technologies Group >> HPC Research Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 >> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> de...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >> > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
