Re: GDB on M1 mac?
Paul Koning via Gdb <[email protected]>
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> On Jun 22, 2022, at 4:57 AM, Luis Machado via Gdb <[email protected]> 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