gdb

USE flags

• cet - Enable Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology.
• debuginfod - Enable debuginfod support via dev-libs/elfutils libdebuginfod
• guile - Add support for the guile Scheme interpreter
• lzma - Support lzma compression in ELF debug info
• multitarget - Support all known targets in one gdb binary
• nls - Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
• python - Enable support for the new internal scripting language, as well as extended pretty printers
• python_single_target_python3_10 - Build for Python 3.10 only
• python_single_target_python3_11 - Build for Python 3.11 only
• python_single_target_python3_9 - Build for Python 3.9 only
• server - Install the "gdbserver" program (useful for embedded/remote targets)
• sim - Build gdb's simulators for various hardware platforms. See https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Sim.
• source-highlight - Enable listing highlighting via dev-util/source-highlight
• test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
• vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour; DO NOT USE THIS ON A GLOBAL SCALE as the severity of the meaning changes drastically
• xml - Support parsing XML data files needed (at least) for cpu features, memory maps, and syscall tracing
• xxhash - Use dev-libs/xxhash to speed up internal hashing.
• zstd - Enable support for ZSTD compression

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