https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17727
Issue ID: 17727 Summary: addr2line does not understand debug info Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: shac...@weka.io gdb, for some reason, does manage to show line numbers, but only sort of: $ cat d.d import std.stdio; void main() { writeln("Hello, world"); } $ dmd -g -gc d.d $ gdb d GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.12.50.20170314-0ubuntu1.1) 7.12.50.20170314-git Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from d...done. (gdb) break main Breakpoint 1 at 0x463c4 (gdb) run Starting program: /tmp/scratch/d [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Breakpoint 1, 0x000055555559a3c4 in main () (gdb) bt #0 0x000055555559a3c4 in main () #1 0x00007ffff73f33f1 in __libc_start_main (main=0x55555559a3c0 <main>, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffddb8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffdda8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:291 #2 0x0000555555599b5a in _start () >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Important Point <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< (gdb) step Single stepping until exit from function main, which has no line number information. Hello, world __libc_start_main (main=0x55555559a3c0 <main>, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffddb8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffdda8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:325 325 ../csu/libc-start.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) kill Kill the program being debugged? (y or n) y (gdb) delete 1 (gdb) break d.d:4 Breakpoint 2 at 0x555555599c64: file d.d, line 4. (gdb) run Starting program: /tmp/scratch/d [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Breakpoint 2, _Dmain () at d.d:4 4 writeln("Hello, world"); (gdb) bt #0 _Dmain () at d.d:4 (gdb) quit A debugging session is active. Inferior 1 [process 15126] will be killed. Quit anyway? (y or n) y $ addr2line -e d 0x555555599c64 ??:0 $ dmd -v DMD64 D Compiler v2.074.1 To summarize: gdb can break on function name, but cannot single step from that point, as it claims it has no line information. It can break on file:line combination. addr2line cannot convert that address into a file:line This issue is a possible duplicate of 8841 --