GDB Vs LLDB debuggers

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Abhinav picture Abhinav · Mar 14, 2012 · Viewed 30k times · Source

What is the difference between GDB & LLDB debuggers? I recently upgraded my Xcode version from 4.2 to 4.3 & started getting warning to upgrade my debugger from GDB to LLDB.

Answer

infinitetape picture infinitetape · Mar 14, 2012

LLDB is part of the LLVM suite of tools that Apple is moving to, including Clang. There are tons of improved features, including improved performance. There's a quick intro for GDB users here: http://lldb.llvm.org/tutorial.html

However...

You might want to take a trip over to the forums at developer.apple.com. There's a fair bit of rumbling about issues with LLDB at the moment (in XCode 4.3.1). One nasty issue, which people from Apple have confirmed, is that viewing ivars while stepping may show you the wrong values.

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