<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <title>LLDB Homepage</title> </head> <body> <div class="www_title"> The <strong>LLDB</strong> Debugger </div> <div id="container"> <div id="content"> <!--#include virtual="sidebar.incl"--> <div id="middle"> <div class="post"> <h1 class ="postheader">What is LLDB?</h1> <div class="postcontent"> <p>LLDB is a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built as a set of reusable components which highly leverage existing libraries in the larger LLVM Project, such as the Clang expression parser and LLVM disassembler.</p> <p>LLDB is in early development, but is mature enough to support basic debugging scenarios on Mac OS X in C, Objective-C and C++.</p> <p>All of the code in the LLDB project is available under the standard <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license">LLVM License</a>, an open source "BSD-style" license.</p> </div> <div class="postfooter"></div> </div> <div class="post"> <h1 class ="postheader">Why a new debugger?</h1> <div class="postcontent"> <p>In order to achieve our goals we decided to start with a fresh architecture that would support modern multi-threaded programs, handle debugging symbols in an efficient manner, use compiler based code knowledge and have plug-in support for functionality and extensions. Additionally we want the debugger capabilities to be available to other analysis tools, be they scripts or compiled programs, without requiring them to be GPL.</p> </div> <div class="postfooter"></div> </div> <div class="post"> <h1 class ="postheader">Platform Support</h1> <div class="postcontent"> <p>LLDB is known to work on the following platforms, but ports to new platforms are welcome:</p> <ul> <li>Mac OS X i386 and x86-64</li> </ul> </div> <div class="postfooter"></div> </div> <div class="post"> <h1 class ="postheader">Get it and get involved!</h1> <div class="postcontent"> <p>To check out the code, use:</p> <ul> <li>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lldb/trunk lldb</li> </ul> <p>Note that LLDB currently only builds out of the box on Mac OS X with Xcode, but patches to improve portability are definitely welcome.</p> <p>Discussions about LLDB should go to the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev">lldb-dev</a> mailing list. Commit messages for the lldb SVN module are automatically sent to the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits">lldb-commits</a> mailing list, and this is also the preferred mailing list for patch submissions.</p> </div> <div class="postfooter"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>