PathDB (non GPL/GNU debugger) ported to FreeBSD !

[Jason Hellenthal]

Pedro,

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Hello...
> 
> I caught this email on another list but it's directly
> relevant to to us and as I've seen so many complaints
> about the (lame) state of our GNU debugger, I am sure
> there is sufficient interest.
> 
> Please test and submit feedback to cbergstrom@ as
> requested in his email.
> 
> (FWIW, I suggested that Dtrace support would be
> awesome).
> ________
> From: Christopher Bergström <cbergstrom AT NOSPAM pathscale DOT com>
> 
> PathDB (debugger) has been ported to FreeBSD.
> 
> Summary:  x86/x86_64 debugger with the goal to drop-in replace gdb.
> We recently finished some heavy refactoring and now focusing on
> improving performance, *robustness*, scalability (clusters/multicore
> systems), DWARF4, OS portability and supported targets.  PathDB has a
> library based design with a cli interface doing direct function calls.
> Using C-bindings it should be fairly trivial to extend or add a new
> front-end in python or other scripting language.
> 
> Source
> git clone git://github.com/path64/debugger.git
> 
> Current status (heavy development - expect bugs)
> GDB test suite results as of today (A lot of timeouts and at
> a glance it seems like a lot of trivial CLI stuff)
> FAIL: 747
> PASS: 477
> 
> Log : https://gist.github.com/b44f708cc2242091bc20
> ---
> Man page - http://www.pathscale.com/docs/pathdb.html
> User guide (Needs to be updated) -
> http://www.pathscale.com/docs/PathDB_UserGuide.pdf
> 
> We'd love feedback and more testers.
> 
> Bug reports can be sent to me (cbergstrom) directly or
> feel free to say hi on irc
> 
> #pathscale - irc.freenode.net
> 

Sorry - no offense and just my point of view. PathDB may be nice but
there is nothing that is utterly apparent to be already ported to
FreeBSD as your subject implies. So I went through all the links and
most everything I see keeps pointing at linux this and linux that then
checked out the source which has a bunch of gmake(1) files scattered
throughout and what looks to be deepdencies on GNU GCC libs and such.
Maybe I hit the Linux repo instead of the FreeBSD one ? did I
misunderstand and '!' is supposed to be '?' in the subject ?.

Anyway... seeing as clang/llvm is the compiler of choice for those on
9-CURRENT its probably worth noting that link [1] would probably be more
worthwhile supporting rather than something that hasnt been ported
already. Also to note it seems clearly better documented.

1). http://lldb.llvm.org/status.html


-- 

 Regards, (jhell)
 Jason Hellenthal

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