Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-09-04 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dijous, 31 d’agost de 2023, a les 12:42:59 (CEST), Halla Rempt va escriure: > On dinsdag 29 augustus 2023 05:22:56 CEST Thiago Macieira wrote: > > True, but the majority of our user base is still Linux, so if we had to > > choose only one, it would have to be gdb. > > Um, no? The majority is

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-31 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 31 August 2023 03:42:59 PDT Halla Rempt wrote: > On dinsdag 29 augustus 2023 05:22:56 CEST Thiago Macieira wrote: > > True, but the majority of our user base is still Linux, so if we had to > > choose only one, it would have to be gdb. > > Um, no? The majority is on Windows. Yes, we

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-31 Thread Halla Rempt
On dinsdag 29 augustus 2023 05:22:56 CEST Thiago Macieira wrote: > True, but the majority of our user base is still Linux, so if we had to > choose > only one, it would have to be gdb. Um, no? The majority is on Windows. Halla

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-29 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 4:25 PM Thiago Macieira wrote: > 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

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
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

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Nate Graham
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.

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
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

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Harald Sitter
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

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
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

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
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

Re: drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
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

drkonqi's many debuggers

2023-08-28 Thread Harald Sitter
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