Preview release of cuda-gdb available for Macosx

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A preview release of cuda-gdb for MacOSX is now available:

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda-gdb.html

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Great job, thank you, I needed a debugger on OS X:) I’ve tried it, unfortunately the 3.2.22 driver’s malloc() doesn’t work, I’ve filed a bug report.

Best,

Eray

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Does anyone know if cuda-gdb on MacOS needs a dedicated board?

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I thought you needed to stop Aqua for cuda-gdb, but on launching it does not complain like the linux version does when launched from x11:

centauri:src malfunct$ cuda-gdb 

NVIDIA (R) CUDA Debugger

3.2 release

Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2010 NVIDIA Corporation

GNU gdb 6.3.50.20050815-cvs (Sat Dec 18 05:50:29 UTC 2010)

Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are

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There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.

This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-apple-darwin10.0.0 --target=".

(cuda-gdb)

And it couldn’t step into kernels (compiled with -g -G), but this may not be a shortcoming of the os x version since the linux version doesn’t work for me either. It would be great if I could run it, because I want to understand why my kernel hangs.

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The cuda-gdb system usage scenarios for mac is explained in this doc(Search for usage scenarios) - http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/3_2_prod/toolkit/docs/Getting_Started_Guide_Mac_gdb_Preview.pdf

On the malloc issue do you repro that issue with any of the sdk samples from http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/3_2_prod/sdk/gpucomputingsdk_3.2.17_macos.pkg

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I’ll send more info in the associated bug report.

Thanks,