Time for turning off gdb by default? Or worse...

[Adrian Chadd]

On 10 April 2014 16:16, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 8 April 2014 18:17, Ian Lepore <ian at 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.

Right, so can we flip back to dwarf-2 and make that stuff continue to
somewhat-work until the replacements are ready? :)


-a