On 1/12/19, Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2019, at 19:40, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pin...@hardenedbsd.org>
> wrote:
>> According the following comment in ${SRCTOP}/sys/conf/kern.mk:
>>
>> #
>> # Add -gdwarf-2 when compiling -g. The default starting in clang v3.4
>> # and gcc 4.8 is to generate DWARF version 4. However, our tools don't
>> # cope well with DWARF 4, so force it to genereate DWARF2, which they
>> # understand. Do this unconditionally as it is harmless when not needed,
>> # but critical for these newer versions.
>> #
>> .if ${CFLAGS:M-g} != "" && ${CFLAGS:M-gdwarf*} == ""
>> CFLAGS+=        -gdwarf-2
>> .endif
>>
>> this dwarf2 limitation still exists in today's HEAD?
>>
>> I mean the FreeBSD project switched to elftoolchain and mostly to LLVM
>> tools. LLDB is compiled by default on 13-CURRENT (~ HEAD) and the kgdb
>> has moved under the libexec directory, to hide them from the common
>> usage.
>
> See https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17930, where there is a proposed patch
> for this very topic.

Thanks!

>From the other side, is there any result from the GSoC14's klldb?
I can't really find any info in the project's github branch, but I've found this
patch: https://reviews.llvm.org/rLLDB314672 .



>
> -Dimitry
>
>
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