On Monday, 28 August 2023 21:33:25 PDT Nate Graham wrote:
> On 8/28/23 22:25, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > It does because it might be missing in the system far more often than gdb.
> > We'd get more backtraces and therefore more data if we focused on gdb
> >
> > Another point is that Linux
On 8/28/23 22:25, Thiago Macieira wrote:
It does because it might be missing in the system far more often than gdb.
We'd get more backtraces and therefore more data if we focused on gdb
Another point is that Linux distributions have been shipping gdb with
debuginfod support for a year or two.
On Monday, 28 August 2023 20:30:36 PDT Harald Sitter wrote:
> I am not quite following. We can depend on any debugger we want,
> surely? I mean, there are practical implications to consider for sure,
> but gdb being the dominant debugger on Linux doesn't prevent us from
> depending on lldb
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 5:23 AM Thiago Macieira wrote:
>
> On Monday, 28 August 2023 12:59:01 PDT Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > (puts on FreeBSD hat) On the non-GNU side of the world, lldb is the thing
> > that is "installed anyway" and gdb takes extra effort. Though I don't know
> > if the lldb
On Monday, 28 August 2023 12:59:01 PDT Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> (puts on FreeBSD hat) On the non-GNU side of the world, lldb is the thing
> that is "installed anyway" and gdb takes extra effort. Though I don't know
> if the lldb integration works -- I have both installed, and I don't know if
> I
On Monday, 28 August 2023 17:23:00 CEST Harald Sitter wrote:
> I am wondering: does anyone actually use anything besides the default
> gdb debugger? We have a lot of code just for supporting multiple
> debuggers and I am wondering if we couldn't just focus on one debugger
> and get less code with
On Monday, 28 August 2023 08:23:00 PDT Harald Sitter wrote:
> On a related note: does anyone have opinions on using lldb instead of
> gdb?
This contradicts your earlier point of:
> I am wondering if we couldn't just focus on one debugger
> and get less code with a better experience (both in
I am wondering: does anyone actually use anything besides the default
gdb debugger? We have a lot of code just for supporting multiple
debuggers and I am wondering if we couldn't just focus on one debugger
and get less code with a better experience (both in writing and
reading it).
On a related