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| 11 | The <strong>LLDB</strong> Debugger
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| 21 | <h1 class ="postheader">What is LLDB?</h1>
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| 23 | <p>LLDB is a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built as a set
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| 24 | of reusable components which highly leverage existing libraries in the
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| 25 | larger LLVM Project, such as the Clang expression parser and LLVM
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| 26 | disassembler.</p>
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| 27 | <p>LLDB is in early development, but is mature enough to support basic
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| 28 | debugging scenarios on Mac OS X in C, Objective-C and C++.</p>
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| 30 | <p>All of the code in the LLDB project is available under the standard
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| 31 | <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license">LLVM
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| 32 | License</a>, an open source "BSD-style" license.</p>
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| 38 | <h1 class ="postheader">Why a new debugger?</h1>
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| 40 | <p>In order to achieve our goals we decided to start with a fresh architecture
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| 41 | that would support modern multi-threaded programs, handle debugging symbols
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| 42 | in an efficient manner, use compiler based code knowledge and have plug-in
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| 43 | support for functionality and extensions. Additionally we want the debugger
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| 44 | capabilities to be available to other analysis tools, be they scripts or
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| 45 | compiled programs, without requiring them to be GPL.</p>
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| 51 | <h1 class ="postheader">Platform Support</h1>
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| 54 | <p>LLDB is known to work on the following platforms, but ports to new
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| 55 | platforms are welcome:</p>
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| 57 | <li>Mac OS X i386 and x86-64</li>
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| 65 | <h1 class ="postheader">Get it and get involved!</h1>
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| 68 | <p>To check out the code, use:</p>
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| 70 | <ul>
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| 71 | <li>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lldb/trunk lldb</li>
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| 74 | <p>Note that LLDB currently only builds out of the box on Mac OS X with
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| 75 | Xcode, but patches to improve portability are definitely welcome.</p>
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| 77 | <p>Discussions about LLDB should go to the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev">lldb-dev</a> mailing
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| 78 | list. Commit messages for the lldb SVN module are automatically sent to the
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| 79 | <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits">lldb-commits</a>
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| 80 | mailing list, and this is also the preferred mailing list for patch
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