[Llvm-bgq-discuss] lldb

Hal Finkel hfinkel at anl.gov
Tue Mar 4 12:38:46 CST 2014


What version of gdb are you using? You might want to try using the gdb that comes with the gcc 4.7 toolchain, it is much newer.

 -Hal

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John A. Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: llvm-bgq-discuss at lists.alcf.anl.gov
> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:36:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Llvm-bgq-discuss] lldb
> 
> Hal,
> 
> OK. I recompiled everything of mine over the last few days, and now
> gdb
> refuses to load any debug symbols. I wondered if they were
> incompatible
> and I had inadvertently been picking up the wrong ones before. I’ll
> try
> again and double check all my debug settings
> 
> Ta
> 
> JB
> 
> On 04/03/14 19:15, "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> >John,
> >
> >I've never tried it, and I don't even know if lldb supports PowerPC
> >in
> >general. You can always extract the source and apply the patches
> >from the
> >source RPMs and try it. However, you might be stuck with gdb for the
> >time
> >being.
> >
> > -Hal
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "John A. Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch>
> >> To: llvm-bgq-discuss at lists.alcf.anl.gov
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:12:19 PM
> >> Subject: [Llvm-bgq-discuss] lldb
> >> 
> >> Are there any pages out there describing how one sets up lldb to
> >> go
> >> alongside a bbq clang.
> >> I tried building lldb from source, but it wants to know where the
> >> llvm source is, and since I’m using the bbq clang I don’t have the
> >> source (I wanted to avoid compiling everything from scratch). I
> >> wonder if there’s an lldb binary for ppc out there anywhere.
> >> (Since I’m targeting Io nodes I’m hoping it’s more feasible to use
> >> lldb than it would be on the compute nodes)
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> 
> >> JB
> >> 
> >> 
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> 
> 

-- 
Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory


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