Open Bug 1162473 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Ship a GDB init script with Firefox

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Platform:
Unspecified
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: ted, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

We have some GDB pretty printers in the tree (https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/gdb/), and some in patches (like bug 985566) that are useful for debugging Firefox, but the primary motivation here is that I'd like to have symbol server/source server debugging for Firefox nightlies and releases, and it would be ideal if the GDB machinery for that shipped alongside the binaries so you could simply load (or allow it to auto-load) the file and magically get symbols + source as you debug.

The symbol server bits I'd like to ship require GDB 7.9, but they look like this:
https://gist.github.com/luser/193572147c401c8a965c
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
Severity: normal → S3
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