Hi; I understand Dtrace is supported on MacOS X and the BSDs, and I have seen there are patches for linux too, so I am starting to play with it.
Solaris' MDB seems to be the only debugger that supports Dtrace proper through a set of dcmds. It would be nice to have similar support on lldb so, JFYI, I asked one of Dtrace designers about it: --- On Wed, 5/18/11, Bryan Cantrill wrote: ... > > > Is there something that the debugger know about > > Dtrace? There is some ongoing work in pathDB and > > lldb as possible replacements to gdb and having > > Dtrace well supported could be really nice. > > The knowledge that the debugger has of DTrace is really > limited to its ability to process in-kernel DTrace > buffers. See: > > http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Postmortem+Tracing > FWIW, the mdb sources are here: http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/mdb/ Just thought someone may want to explore it. cheers, Pedro. _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
