<html><body><p><font size="2">Yes. </font><br><font size="2">gdb v8.11 or later (eg: the one from AIX Toolbox </font><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-overview"><font size="2">https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-overview</font></a><font size="2">) should be able to debug them.</font><br><br><font size="2"><br>Best,<br><br>Jinsong Ji (纪金松), PhD.<br><br>XL/LLVM on Power Compiler Development <br>E-mail: jji@us.ibm.com</font><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=8FBB0C37DFF587578f9e8a93df938690918c8FB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Franz Fehringer via llvm-dev ---03/26/2021 01:28:32 PM---Thats unfortunate but thx nevertheless. But "><font size="2" color="#424282">Franz Fehringer via llvm-dev ---03/26/2021 01:28:32 PM---Thats unfortunate but thx nevertheless. But debugging clang generated executables with gdb should or</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Franz Fehringer via llvm-dev <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">03/26/2021 01:28 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[EXTERNAL] Re: [llvm-dev] Introducing debugger tuning for dbx</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">"llvm-dev" <llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org></font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br>Thats unfortunate but thx nevertheless.<br>But debugging clang generated executables with gdb should or will be possible (on AIX)?<br><br>Am 26.03.2021 um 17:22 schrieb Jinsong Ji:
<ul><ul><font size="2">Hi Franz:</font><br><font color="#1D1C1D"><br>There is currently no plan of supporting lldb on AIX as far as I know.</font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Best,<br><br>Jinsong Ji (纪金松), PhD.<br><br>XL/LLVM on Power Compiler Development <br>E-mail: </font><a href="mailto:jji@us.ibm.com"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">jji@us.ibm.com</font></u></a><br><br><img src="cid:1__=8FBB0C37DFF587578f9e8a93df938690918c8FB@" width="16" height="16" alt="Inactive
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10:05:21 AM---While i have no fruitful input regarding you"><font size="2" color="#424282">Franz Fehringer via llvm-dev ---03/26/2021 10:05:21 AM---While i have no fruitful input regarding your question(s), just out of curiosity: What ist the stat</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F"><br>From: </font><font size="2">Franz Fehringer via llvm-dev </font><a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF"><llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org></font></u></a><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F"><br>To: </font><a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</font></u></a><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F"><br>Date: </font><font size="2">03/26/2021 10:05 AM</font><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F"><br>Subject: </font><font size="2">[EXTERNAL] Re: [llvm-dev] Introducing debugger tuning for dbx</font><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F"><br>Sent by: </font><font size="2">"llvm-dev" </font><a href="mailto:llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF"><llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org></font></u></a><p><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade><br><br><br>While i have no fruitful input regarding your question(s), just out of curiosity: What ist the state of affairs for lldb on AIX?<br><br>Am 26.03.2021 um 14:16 schrieb Zheng CZ Chen via llvm-dev:
<ul><ul><ul><ul><font color="#1D1C1D">Hi，<br><br>As some of you may know [1]，we are working on AIX support. Part of the AIX support is debug support, supporting dbx as the consumer of clang DWARF information [2].<br><br>While the dbx team is also working on improving its dwarf support, there are limitations in foreseeable future. Also there are situations on AIX that end user may not get up to date debugger. <br><br>So we are considering doing some compatibly work in clang/llvm to help improving user experience.<br><br>There are some limitations in dbx we know so far:</font>
<ul><ul><ul><ul type="disc"><li><font color="#1D1C1D" face="Monaco">.dwstr section is not supported for now;</font><li><font color="#1D1C1D" face="Monaco">column-info in the line table not supported for now;</font><li><font color="#1D1C1D" face="Monaco">sub-optimal handling of unsupported dwarf tags. Eg: dbx support dwarf 3, but misbehaving with new DWARF 5 tags DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_14 [3].</font></ul></ul></ul></ul><font color="#1D1C1D"><br>As discussed with the reviewers in patch [3], we are considering introducing a new tuning debugger tuning option for dbx, -debugger-tuning=dbx [4], so that we can change some option<br>default on AIX for dbx to accommodate its limitations, eg; -gno-column-info.<br><br>Any thoughts about the direction here? Reviews and feedback to [3][4] are also appreciated.</font><font color="#1D1C1D" face="Monaco"><br><br>[1]: </font><a href="https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/130175.html"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Monaco">https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/130175.html</font></u></a><font color="#1D1C1D" face="Monaco"><br>[2]: </font><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/rGafa76fe67a42f6d40d83a4f7d0cb03373045f3f4" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Monaco">https://reviews.llvm.org/rGafa76fe67a42f6d40d83a4f7d0cb03373045f3f4</font></u></a><font color="#1D1C1D" face="Monaco"><br>[3]: </font><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D99250" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Monaco">https://reviews.llvm.org/D99250</font></u></a><font color="#1D1C1D" face="Monaco"><br>[4]: </font><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D99400" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Monaco">https://reviews.llvm.org/D99400</font></u></a><font color="#1D1C1D"><br><br>Thanks!</font><br><br>BRS//<br>Chen Zheng<br>Power Compiler Backend Developer<br><br><tt><br>_______________________________________________<br>LLVM Developers mailing list</tt><u><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></u><a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org"><tt><u><font color="#0000FF">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</font></u></tt></a><u><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></u><a href="https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev"><tt><u><font color="#0000FF">https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev</font></u></tt></a></ul></ul></ul></ul><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>LLVM Developers mailing list</font></tt><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF"><br></font></u></tt><a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</font></u></tt></a><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF"><br></font></u></tt><a href="https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2"> </font></tt><br><br><br></ul></ul><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>LLVM Developers mailing list<br>llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev">https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"> <br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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