Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:16:54 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time for turning off gdb by default? Or worse... Message-ID: <CAPyFy2BhWEzNqUvonLLpVwOKbOR42gmrw=wUZ3zbzcN4LQMDDA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1396995427.81853.449.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <DD38131E-9A43-4EFA-A27D-ED6B64F6A35A@bsdimp.com> <20140408212435.GA75404@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <57ECB078-3D7A-4BE8-AA29-1ED7BB347DBD@bsdimp.com> <1396995427.81853.449.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On 8 April 2014 18:17, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Only when building the kernel. For userland we've got nothing. gdb > aside, even addr2line doesn't work on userland binaries anymore. It > used to be hard to do debugging for arm. Now it's impossible. The elftoolchain-based binutils replacements (nm, addr2line, etc.) work well, although there are a few remaining features that need to be implemented in some of them. They also inherently support (at least some) cross-arch use cases. I'm hopeful that they'll see these features added, and be imported, before too long.
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