Hi Aidan, +1 for this work. Please note that I did some work on making lldb understand the xml description that came from target. Although it was not committed but it may prove helpful to you.
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/lldb-dev/2013-October/002510.html Regards, Abid > -----Original Message----- > From: lldb-dev-boun...@cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:lldb-dev-boun...@cs.uiuc.edu] > On Behalf Of Aidan Dodds > Sent: 31 March 2015 11:35 > To: Greg Clayton; Gary Benson > Cc: lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > Subject: Re: [lldb-dev] Increasing support for other gdbservers > > On 30/03/2015 18:38, Greg Clayton wrote: > > > > I know about the register numbering stuff and I would love to see support > for the "$qXfer:features:" added to LLDB. The one thing this data doesn't > contain is the register numbers for the ABI (DWARF register numbers (for > debug info), compiler register numbers (for like .eh_frame)), but that info > could be inferred from an ABI plugin that we could infer from the "osabi" of > "GNU/Linux" in the target.xml: > > > > > So please do submit patches that implement this and we will be happy to > approve them. > > I am currently prototyping $qXfer:features support in LLDB with an aim to > upstream it. It will require an XML parser, so I wanted to have a discussion > about adding one to LLDB. > > I have been using TinyXML2 in my prototype, which is open sourced under > the ZLib license. Is there any policy in LLDB for handling external library > dependencies? > Would there be objections to TinyXML2 making its way into the LLDB code > base as an external? Writing a new XML parser from scratch in LLDB isn't > ideal. > > I would still like to have a discussion about adding a plugin architecture to > gdb-remote making it easier to handle packets outwith the LLDB based > servers. The code in gdb-remote that sends and handles packets is scattered > over one or two huge classes, it would be beneficial to start looking at > breaking this up and modularizing it. At least for the packets which are not > supported by lldb's own RSP producers. > > > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
