Re: GDB on M1 mac?
Luis Machado via Gdb <[email protected]>
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On 6/22/22 14:01, Paul Koning wrote: > > >> 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. Technically we have darwin native support for x86-64 (don't know how well it works). If that works well, It might be a matter of implementing the native parts for aarch64.