GDB 7.11 released

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Post by lelf » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 2:41 PM UTC

GDB 7.11 released
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Re: GDB 7.11 released

#2

Post by jjawssd » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 3:42 PM UTC

How do I use this on OS X 10.11?

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by TerryADavis » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

At Ticketmaster, I learned the first thing you write when you start on bare metal is a debugger. I worked on VAX, 68000 and 8051 bare metal.

The difference between an amateur operating system project and a professional one is writing a compiler.

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by dman » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 3:51 PM UTC

jjawssd wrote: post #2

How do I use this on OS X 10.11?

I dont develop much on osx anymore, but I suspect this will be available in homebrew at some point.

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by fjarlq » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 4:10 PM UTC

jjawssd wrote: post #2

How do I use this on OS X 10.11?

You can build the gdb executable manually on OS X 10.11.

First, run this if you haven't already installed the Command Line Tools for Xcode:

  xcode-select --install

Then run these commands:

  curl -o gdb-7.11.tar.xz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.11.tar.xz
  tar zxf gdb-7.11.tar.xz
  cd gdb-7.11
  ./configure
  make
  make install

This should place the executable at /usr/local/bin/gdb. The final step is to codesign it. Instructions: http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDarwin

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by agumonkey » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 4:19 PM UTC

TerryADavis wrote: post #3

At Ticketmaster, I learned the first thing you write when you start on bare metal is a debugger. I worked on VAX, 68000 and 8051 bare metal. The difference between an amateur operating system project and a professional one is writing a compiler.

You still work for TicketMaster or was it long ago ?

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by vmorgulis » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 4:48 PM UTC

TerryADavis wrote: post #3

At Ticketmaster, I learned the first thing you write when you start on bare metal is a debugger. I worked on VAX, 68000 and 8051 bare metal. The difference between an amateur operating system project and a professional one is writing a compiler.

Forth and HolyC have both.

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by vmorgulis » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 4:50 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #6

TerryADavis wrote: post #3

At Ticketmaster, I learned the first thing you write when you start on bare metal is a debugger. I worked on VAX, 68000 and 8051 bare metal. The difference between an amateur operating system project and a professional one is writing a compiler.

You still work for TicketMaster or was it long ago ?

Take a look at Terry's project if you don't know it yet:

http://www.templeos.org/

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by blt » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

OK, for someone who's written a lot of C++ in Visual Studio but is now developing on Linux: is it worth learning GDB? It seems like it'll always have some mental overhead compared to a visual debugger, but on the other hand I was never crazy about using an IDE...

Re: GDB 7.11 released

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Post by cheez » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 5:38 PM UTC

blt wrote: post #9

OK, for someone who's written a lot of C++ in Visual Studio but is now developing on Linux: is it worth learning GDB? It seems like it'll always have some mental overhead compared to a visual debugger, but on the other hand I was never crazy about using an IDE...

Learn cgdb instead.