Re: [cdt-dev] lldb

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice.
Thanks Abid.


BR,

Marc


----- Original Message -----
From: "Abid, Hafiz" <Hafiz_Abid@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 19/05/2014 8:39
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] lldb



The lldb-mi was committed last week in LLDB repository. It is a stand-alone
driver that is supposed to give the MI output.  I am trying to test it and will report
my findings.

Regards,
Abid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Doug Schaefer
> Sent: 15 May 2014 14:58
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] lldb
>
> That is good news. Although I was hoping lldb would be a great second
> debugger integration, possibly enabling some advanced functionality it
> brings, I do recognize the magnitude of that work. It's good to see the lldb
> community already using it with CDT. Can't wait to see it.
>
> Doug.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf
> of Marc Khouzam [marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:19 AM
> To: 'CDT General developers list.'
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] lldb
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Vladimir Prus
> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:55 AM
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] lldb
> >
> > On 05/15/2014 07:46 AM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
> > > Hey gang,
> > >
> > > I had someone ask about the possibility of CDT supporting lldb. Is
> > > anyone working, or thinking of working on it? I've got too many
> > > projects on
> > the go at the moment or I'd chip in and help.
> > >
> > > The Mac toolchain is going through a pretty massive change with the
> > > gnu tools being dropped from Xcode and replaced by clang and lldb. A
> > > lot of us have Macs and it would be good if we had support for their
> > officially supported tools. And, yes, that would include Objective-C
> > which could be on my radar as I renew my admiration of ANTLR with
> > their new version 4.
> >
> > Over at lldb mailing list, there's a email saying work on MI wrapper
> > for lldb is progressing, and that would allow DSF-GDB to work with
> > lldb pretty much automatically. See:
> >
> >      https://www.mail-archive.com/lldb-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg03510.html
> >
> > I personally find this most promising approach. DSF-GDB is pretty big,
> > so any reimplementation would be really complicated. And since GDB/MI
> > is basically somewhat buggy JSON, it will be easy to extend it for any
> > lldb functionality not presently covered.
>
> That sounds promising.
> One of the maintainers of Qt Creator also mentions that they use LLDB's
> python scripting mechanism to produce MI-like output and it lets them "re-
> use most of the existing frontend code".
>
>  https://www.mail-archive.com/lldb-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg03511.html
>
> I'm guessing such scripts would work just as well for Eclipse, if someone
> wants to give it a try.
>
> Marc
>
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