[vlc-devel] [PATCH] libvlc: dump object types abd names when leaking

[Steve Lhomme]

Not only gdb+qt is a bad combination (you either choose to get 20 breaks 
at each run or break on legit asserts) but it's not the worst part.

VLC has hundreds of DLLs and loads tens of them just to play a file 
(that's when you have plugins cache working). For every DLL loaded gdb 
tries to load the symbol. In worst cases (if you happen to set more than 
2 breakpoints) it can take 1s per DLL on my super fast machine (and all 
other machines I've used in the past years). Making debugging any line 
change a nightmare. Let alone the code that times out because the 
debugger didn't finish loading some other parts.

MSVC has none of these issues, it's very fast to load and you can put 
keep 100 breakpoints and works just as fast.

On 21/02/2019 17:28, Hannes Domani via vlc-devel wrote:
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> Subject:
> Re: [vlc-devel] [PATCH] libvlc: dump object types abd names when leaking
> From:
> Hannes Domani <ssbssa at yahoo.de>
> Date:
> 21/02/2019 à 17:28
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> Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2019, 12:56:02 MEZ hat Steve Lhomme 
> <robux4 at ycbcr.xyz> Folgendes geschrieben:
>
> > No because some people are refusing to support building with MSVC.
> > Things will hopefully change when we can generate usable PDB files with
> > CLang.
>
> Just out of curiosity, how would MSVC improve this kind of situation?
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