On Mon 19 Aug 2013 01:15:51 PM PDT, Neil wrote: > Does Linux have a debugging story? On Windows x86 I can happily let > the application run and when it crashes I click Debug and WinDbg is > launched for me, and I can inspect the crash state and possibly fix > things up and resume the application. Or I can launch the application > from WinDbg and ignore all first chance exceptions so that only real > crashes break into the debugger. > > On Linux I used to launch the application under gdb, however recently > some JS changes made this unhelpful as gdb catches the various SIGSEGV > and/or SIGBUS signals that the JS engine deliberately triggers. If I > ignore those signals then if I run into a real crash then the > application will just quit, which defeats the object of running a > debugger. I can set a breakpoint on AsmJSFaultHandler+49 but it's > presumably too late to get back to the execution state at the point of > the signal... >
I filed bug 906860. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
