On Nov 12, 2013, at 4:42 AM, Abid, Hafiz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > The 'plugin load' command provides a facility to load an LLDB plugin from a > shared library. I am wondering if C++ API provides a way to register the > plugin with the debugger. Code inside LLDB proper can directly call the > static PluginManager::RegisterPlugin() method. Is something equivalent > available through the API? > > My question really is what can be done in a plugin that you load from a > shared library. An example in the codebase shows that you can add a new > command. Is it the only possible usage? Say I want to provide a customized > disassembler through a shared library plugin, is this a supported use case? No not yet. We have too many internal APIs that are used in the internal plug-ins that we don't want to expose and we haven't gotten around to exposing external plug-ins other than the commands as you noted. If you plan to make a patch, please be sure to read our API restrictions: http://lldb.llvm.org/architecture.html#api There are a few ways to could expose external plug-ins. One method would be to have each type of external plugin register a many C callbacks that would take care of creation, and all methods and each C callback would take a "void *this" parameter as the first argument. Internally we would create a new internal plug-in type that uses these callbacks to implement all of the functions. I haven't really thought to much about any other approaches. Comments and suggestions? Greg _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
