Note that, as you say, the debugging information produced by the compiler and the debugger that consumes it are completely orthogonal. I've tried several times to use lldb but I keep coming back to GDB. Particularly now with RR+GDB it's light years ahead.
I find that GDB works quite well with the information that clang generates. That's what I use day-to-day. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Bill McCloskey <wmcclos...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Is the debugging information generated by clang as good or better than > GCC's? My experience with lldb has been terrible, but that may have more to > do with the debugger itself than with the information clang generates. > > -Bill > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > Over in bug 1253064 I'm proposing switching developer builds to prefer > > Clang over GCC because the limited numbers we have say that Clang can > build > > mozilla-central several minutes faster than GCC (13 minutes vs 17.5 on my > > I7-6700K). I'm not proposing switching what we use to produce builds in > > automation. I'm not proposing dropping GCC support. This is all about > > choosing faster defaults so people don't spend as much time waiting for > > builds to complete and become more productive as a result. > > > > Please comment on the bug if you have something to add. > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
