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Re: GDB & Objective C


From: Giah de Barag
Subject: Re: GDB & Objective C
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:16:51 -0400

Can lldb debug mingw objc programs compiled with gcc? If clang is required, 
that is a show-stopper (I am on mingw with gcc and objc). Does lldb have a 
gdb-compatible command set?



On Aug 22, 2016, at 13:38, David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:

> I would not expect modern Objective-C to work well in GDB, nor would I expect 
> GDB to ever fix it.  Have you tried lldb?  It is missing some of the 
> target-specific hooks for our runtime, but is more likely to be possible to 
> fix.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> On 22 Aug 2016, at 18:01, Giah de Barag <gdb@crelg.com> wrote:
> 
>> I filed two bug reports on the GDB Bugzilla.
>> 
>> Bug 20503 - ObjC runtime debugging support is severely broken
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20503
>> 
>> Bug 20501 - Creating NSString convenience variable crashes GDB
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20501
>> 
>> Are your experiences similar? If yes, please add your voice to these bugs. 
>> If no, what are your GDB version and host triplet?
>> 




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