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| <p>LLDB has matured a lot in the last year and can be used for | |
| C, C++ and Objective C development for x86_64, i386 and ARM debugging. | |
| The entire public API is exposed though a framework on Mac OS X which | |
| is used by Xcode, the lldb command line tool, and can also be used by | |
| python. The entire public API is exposed through script bridging which | |
| allows LLDB to use an embedded python script interpreter, as well as | |
| having a python module named "lldb" which can be used from python | |
| on the command line. This allows debug sessions to be scripted. It also | |
| allows powerful debugging actions to be created and attached to a variety | |
| of debugging workflows.</p> | |
| <p>What works well:</p> | |
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| <li>Process control, including external process control via debugserver | |
| (which is included as part of the lldb project)</li> | |
| <li>Breakpoints: Source-line, symbolic, C++ mangled names, module | |
| scoping</li> | |
| <li>Symbol reading and object file introspection</li> | |
| <li>Script bridging</li> | |
| <li>Thread inspection and stepping</li> | |
| <li>Disassembly of i386, x86-64, & ARM/Thumb machine code</li> | |
| <li>Backtracing of i386, x86-64, & ARM/Thumb machine code</li> | |
| <li>libedit powers the command line prompt and input | |
| <li>Objective-C 2.0 Support: Printing properties, synthetic properties, | |
| Objective-C expressions, KVO, dynamic types, dot syntax, runtime data</li> | |
| <li>C++ support: method access, template support, dynamic types</li> | |
| <li>The public API to the library</li> | |
| <li>Expression evaluation</li> | |
| <li>Objective-C support: stepping into/over, printing the description of | |
| an object ("po")</li> | |
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