Re: GDB & Objective C

[David Chisnall]

On 22 Aug 2016, at 18:01, Giah de Barag <gdb@crelg.com> wrote:
> 
> I filed two bug reports on the GDB Bugzilla.
> 
> Bug 20503 - ObjC runtime debugging support is severely broken
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20503
> 
> Bug 20501 - Creating NSString convenience variable crashes GDB
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20501
> 
> Are your experiences similar? If yes, please add your voice to these bugs. If 
> no, what are your GDB version and host triplet?

I would not expect modern Objective-C to work well in GDB, nor would I expect 
GDB to ever fix it.  Have you tried lldb?  It is missing some of the 
target-specific hooks for our runtime, but is more likely to be possible to fix.

David