[Interest] QtCreator, Mac OSX and LLDB?

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:35:55PM +0000, danny wrote:
> 
> 
> > "Useless" is a bit strong as far as I can tell. I am not aware of
> > any open show-stoppers in JIRA right now, and in the admittedly rare
> > cases where I use it it appears to work. But functionality-wise it's
> > certainly not on par with GDB-on-something-like-Fedora.
> > 
> 
> Yes, useless.
> 
> If I create an executable, linked to static library (all within a
> SUBDIR in Creator) and attempt to trace into call into a function
> defined within the static library, GDB will fail 95% of the time. And
> by fail I mean, I mean any of these cases:
> 
> 1) I'll get no symbols in the expression panel at all.  2) I'll get
> the symbols but no values (Creator will claim that they are optimised
> out, which is untrue).  3) Creator will hang while break-points
> flicker on an off widely.  4) GDB will hang and it, Creator and the
> app under test must be force-quit using Activity Monitor.

Do you have references for these issues to bugreports.qt-project.org ?

> This stuff used to work better back when Creator was first released.
> My understanding is that something was changed in the debugger
> integration in v2 (something to do with python pretty-printers)? Ever
> since then it's been a crapshoot on Mac.

The pretty-printing concept on Mac is still pretty much the original
version. gdb on Linux and Windows has moved to python in the meantime.

Andre'