Debugging experience on Mac OS X

[Sean Kelly]

On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:23 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> What is actually supposed to work on Mac OS X in regards to debugging and exception?
> 
> When an exception is thrown I do get a backtrace but without line information. Does this work on any other platform? Is it supposed to be working on Mac OS X?

This is a compiler issue and there are a bunch of tickets for it.  The way debug info is generated on OSX has to change.  As things stand, debugging on OSX is incredibly painful.  You might be able to get a mangled backtrace out of GDB right now, but that's it.