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    Thx again<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 26.03.2021 um 19:36 schrieb Jinsong
      Ji:<br>
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      <p><font size="2">Yes. </font><br>
        <font size="2">gdb v8.11 or later (eg: the one from AIX Toolbox
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          size="2">) should be able to debug them.</font><br>
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          Best,<br>
          <br>
          Jinsong Ji (纪金松), PhD.<br>
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          XL/LLVM on Power Compiler Development <br>
          E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jji@us.ibm.com">jji@us.ibm.com</a></font><br>
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          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>
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        <font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Franz
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        <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"
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      Thats unfortunate but thx nevertheless.<br>
      But debugging clang generated executables with gdb should or will
      be possible (on AIX)?<br>
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      Am 26.03.2021 um 17:22 schrieb Jinsong Ji:
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          <font size="2">Hi Franz:</font><br>
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            There is currently no plan of supporting lldb on AIX as far
            as I know.</font><br>
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            Best,<br>
            <br>
            Jinsong Ji (纪金松), PhD.<br>
            <br>
            XL/LLVM on Power Compiler Development <br>
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            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>
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            From: </font><font size="2">Franz Fehringer via llvm-dev </font><a
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            Date: </font><font size="2">03/26/2021 10:05 AM</font><font
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            Subject: </font><font size="2">[EXTERNAL] Re: [llvm-dev]
            Introducing debugger tuning for dbx</font><font size="2"
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          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>
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          Am 26.03.2021 um 14:16 schrieb Zheng CZ Chen via llvm-dev:
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                  <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>
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                    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>
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                    So we are considering doing some compatibly work in
                    clang/llvm to help improving user experience.<br>
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                    There are some limitations in dbx we know so far:</font>
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                          <li><font face="Monaco" color="#1D1C1D">.dwstr
                              section is not supported for now;</font></li>
                          <li><font face="Monaco" color="#1D1C1D">column-info
                              in the line table not supported for now;</font></li>
                          <li><font face="Monaco" color="#1D1C1D">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></li>
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                    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
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                    [1]: </font><a
href="https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/130175.html"
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                        color="#0000FF">https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/130175.html</font></u></a><font
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                    [2]: </font><a
href="https://reviews.llvm.org/rGafa76fe67a42f6d40d83a4f7d0cb03373045f3f4"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><u><font
                        face="Monaco" color="#0000FF">https://reviews.llvm.org/rGafa76fe67a42f6d40d83a4f7d0cb03373045f3f4</font></u></a><font
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                    [3]: </font><a
                    href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D99250"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><u><font
                        face="Monaco" color="#0000FF">https://reviews.llvm.org/D99250</font></u></a><font
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                    [4]: </font><a
                    href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D99400"
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                        face="Monaco" color="#0000FF">https://reviews.llvm.org/D99400</font></u></a><font
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                    Thanks!</font><br>
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                  BRS//<br>
                  Chen Zheng<br>
                  Power Compiler Backend Developer<br>
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