[Qt-creator] LLDB support

[Stephen Chu]

On 8/29/12 5:20 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
> 29.08.2012, 13:07, "Daniel Price" <daniel.price at fxhome.com>:
>> I’m also desperate for LLDB support in QtCreator, or at a least
>> some kind of patch for GDB.
>>
>> I’m using Creator with the clang compiler and Qt 4.8 and the GDB
>> debugger is next to useless, so much so that it’s waste of time
>> just firing it up. The helpers don’t work, POD and non-POD stack
>> symbols are reported as ‘optimized out’ (even though I’ve disabled
>> all optimizations), stack frames are mysteriously skipped and
>> breakpoints jump around randomly.
>>
>> More recently, I’ve noticed that Creator will hang as it alternates
>> between two breakpoints in code, the margin indicators flashing
>> madly.
>>
>> I don’t buy that Apple’s old version of GDB is to blame here as
>> I’ve used it via XCode and the terminal for non Qt projects and it
>> works well enough.
>
> Nevertheless, try fresh FSF GDB instead.
>
I tried that a couple of times before. Didn't work at all. Couldn't even 
set breakpoints. Debugger wouldn't start at times. Creator itself hung a 
few times too.

Unless FSF GDB improved its OS X compatibility recently, I don't see it 
as a alternative.