Some data from a recent build:
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/645/builds/480

That's 32-bit ARM, armv7l ABI with GCC 8.3 and GDB 8.2.

Python is built with -Og optimization level. In my experience, gdb fails to read debug symbols when Python is optimized at -Og level. Last time I asked a gdb developer, he told me that he always use -O0, so do I.


test.pythoninfo:

platform.architecture: 32bit ELF
platform.libc_ver: glibc 2.28
platform.platform: Linux-4.19.97-v7l+-armv7l-with-glibc2.28
platform.python_implementation: CPython

CC.version: gcc (Raspbian 8.3.0-6+rpi1) 8.3.0
sysconfig[PY_CFLAGS]: -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -g -Og -Wall
sysconfig[PY_CFLAGS_NODIST]: -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -fvisibility=hidden -I./Include/internal
sysconfig[PY_STDMODULE_CFLAGS]: -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -g -Og -Wall -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -fvisibility=hidden -I./Include/internal -I. -I./Include

gdb_version: GNU gdb (Raspbian 8.2.1-2) 8.2.1