[lldb-dev] Rust language support question

[Jim Ingham via lldb-dev]

Jason points out this was gdb writing out a binary form of gdb's psymtabs to be a cheap accelerator table.  Anyway, having the data representation of debug information depend on the internal state of either the compiler or debugger is a fragile thing...

Jim


> On Jan 26, 2018, at 6:16 PM, Jim Ingham <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
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> Note, I think the jury's still out on whether it was a great idea to have the swift type representation be the swift compiler's internal state.  It has proven more than a little fragile. I'm not sure I would suggest that route.  I vaguely remember back in the day there was a -g flag in gcc that produced a compiler state dump that gdb was supposed to read.  But IIRC that ended up being more trouble than it was worth.
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