I use gdb on linux to debug the swift binary. I find that gdb takes about 20 seconds just to read the symbols before I can even interact with gdb. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to decrease the symbol load time, either by some gdb settings or by compiling swift/llvm/clang in such a way as to get a usefully debuggable binary but without so many symbols.
My swift binary is a massive 1.1gb.
$ ls -lh swift
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 1.1G Dec 8 18:43 swift*
I built all of llvm/clang/swift in Debug mode.
(Tangentially related, but using gold instead of ld to link swift is about 2-3x faster)
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Joe_Groff
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You might give lldb a shot, if you haven't already. It seems to cope better with large binaries, and expr evaluation is more stable IME.
-Joe
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On Dec 17, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Rafkind, Jon via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
I use gdb on linux to debug the swift binary. I find that gdb takes about 20 seconds just to read the symbols before I can even interact with gdb. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to decrease the symbol load time, either by some gdb settings or by compiling swift/llvm/clang in such a way as to get a usefully debuggable binary but without so many symbols.
My swift binary is a massive 1.1gb.
$ ls -lh swift
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 1.1G Dec 8 18:43 swift*
I built all of llvm/clang/swift in Debug mode.
(Tangentially related, but using gold instead of ld to link swift is about 2-3x faster)
Better yet, since LLDB is where we have comprehensive support for debugging Swift binaries you'll have a common debugger experience across your C/C++/Swift code.
Kate Stone k8stone@apple.com
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On Dec 17, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Joe Groff via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
On Dec 17, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Rafkind, Jon via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
I use gdb on linux to debug the swift binary. I find that gdb takes about 20 seconds just to read the symbols before I can even interact with gdb. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to decrease the symbol load time, either by some gdb settings or by compiling swift/llvm/clang in such a way as to get a usefully debuggable binary but without so many symbols.
My swift binary is a massive 1.1gb.
$ ls -lh swift
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 1.1G Dec 8 18:43 swift*
I built all of llvm/clang/swift in Debug mode.
(Tangentially related, but using gold instead of ld to link swift is about 2-3x faster)
You might give lldb a shot, if you haven't already. It seems to cope better with large binaries, and expr evaluation is more stable IME.
-Joe
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