Agreed. I looked at the problem this afternoon but an efficient solution would involve a major change (to interpret the dwarf metadata at runtime), and eventually some LLVM hacking, so let's do that post 0.7.
I filed the following ticket to not forget: http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/911 Laurent On Sep 17, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I like the idea of a -g flag. I actually think AOT will be used increasingly > in development scenarios for "code you're not changing" (but may, at some > point, want to see in a backtrace) since the temptation for internal > libraries and such is to AOT them for speed, once they're basically debugged > and working. The code that calls them may not be, however. :) > > - Jordan > > On Sep 17, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > >> On Sep 17, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Steven Parkes wrote: >>>> Sorry I haven't seen this thread for a reason. >>> >>> No worries; I wouldn't think of complaining. >>> >>> I figured out what's quashing things: I don't get backtraces when I run >>> from a mach executable with dylibs/bundles. I'm not sure which or both of >>> those is causing the issue. >> >> Oh I see the problem then. It is true that the backtracing metadata is >> forgotten during AOT compilation. It's actually on purpose (to avoid >> sensitive information to be in the binary), but we should maybe make >> macrubyc accept -g (like gcc) which would support it. In theory AOT >> compilation isn't used for development, but I agree that sometimes you might >> want to do it. >> >> Laurent >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
