From: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Cc: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB on M1 mac?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:01:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AD6ECC78-27FC-4172-9107-BEB3DAB07AB4@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b48224b-9e2e-518d-793b-df4fc5514884@arm.com>
> On Jun 22, 2022, at 4:57 AM, Luis Machado via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 6/22/22 07:52, Gerd Möllmann via Gdb wrote:
>> I tried bulding gdb 12.1 on macOS 12.4 with an Apple M1 chip, but it öooks like that target is not supported.
>> Can I ask if there are plans to support that platform, or even work in progress that I could try out? (I'd use it for debugging Emacs on macOS.)
>> TIA
>
> Arm has macOS-hosted arm-none-eabi tools, but I don't think native aarch64 debugging on macOS is supported, as you said.
>
> I can't speak for other contributors, but I don't know of any plan to support that OS/arch combination for GDB. We're open to
> accepting patches though.
>
> I think LLDB is the way to go on macOS.
Unfortunately that seems to be the only option right now, but it's a nasty one. The UI is obnoxious, and it can't debug GCC output at all unless it was compiled with -O0.
paul
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2022-06-22 6:52 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-06-22 8:57 ` Luis Machado
2022-06-22 13:01 ` Paul Koning [this message]
2022-06-22 13:06 ` Luis Machado
2022-06-22 13:09 ` Paul Koning
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