On Monday, 28 August 2023 20:30:36 PDT Harald Sitter wrote: > I am not quite following. We can depend on any debugger we want, > surely? I mean, there are practical implications to consider for sure, > but gdb being the dominant debugger on Linux doesn't prevent us from > depending on lldb instead.
It does because it might be missing in the system far more often than gdb. We'd get more backtraces and therefore more data if we focused on gdb Another point is that Linux distributions have been shipping gdb with debuginfod support for a year or two. lldb support for it is still pending: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/52732 Therefore, I repeat: if there's room for only one, it's gdb. If we do support both, then on Linux gdb must be used in preference. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering .
