1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 2 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 5 <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 6 <title>LLDB Features</title> 7 </head> 8 9 <body> 10 <div class="www_title"> 11 The <strong>LLDB</strong> Debugger 12 </div> 13 14 <div id="container"> 15 <div id="content"> 16 <!--#include virtual="sidebar.incl"--> 17 18 <div id="middle"> 19 <div class="post"> 20 <h1 class ="postheader">Features</h1> 21 <div class="postcontent"> 22 <p>LLDB supports a broad variety of basic debugging features such as 23 reading DWARF, supporting step, next, finish, backtraces, etc. Some 24 more interested bits are:</p> 25 26 <ul> 27 <li>Plug-in architecture for portability and extensibility:</li> 28 <ul> 29 <li>Object file parsers for executable file formats. Support currently 30 includes Mach-O (32 and 64-bit) & ELF (32-bit).</li> 31 <li>Object container parsers to extract object files contained within a file. 32 Support currently includes universal Mach-O files & BSD Archives. 33 </li> 34 <li>Debug symbol file parsers to incrementally extract debug information from 35 object files. Support currently includes DWARF & Mach-O symbol 36 tables.</li> 37 <li>Symbol vendor plug-ins collect data from a variety of different sources 38 for an executable object.</li> 39 <li>Disassembly plug-ins for each architecture. Support currently includes 40 an LLVM disassembler for <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/01/x86-disassembler.html">i386, x86-64</a> 41 , & ARM/Thumb.</li> 42 <li>Debugger plug-ins implement the host and target specific functions 43 required to debug.</li> 44 </ul> 45 <li>SWIG-generated script bridging allows Python to access and control the 46 public API of the debugger library.</li> 47 <li>A remote protocol server, debugserver, implements Mac OS X debugging on 48 i386 and x86-64.</li> 49 <li>A command line debugger - the lldb executable itself.</li> 50 <li>A framework API to the library.</li> 51 </ul> 52 </div> 53 <div class="postfooter"></div> 54 </div> 55 56 </div> 57 </div> 58 </div> 59 </body> 60 </html>
