LLDB support - Re: DDT 0.9.0 released - GDB debugging integration

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 18/11/2013 20:46, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-11-18 16:49, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
>> BTW, the CDT devs are contemplating supporting LLDB as well:
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=405670
>> (primarily motivated by the poor support for GDB toolchain in Mac)
>>
>> Nothing is decided or started yet, but it would be quite nice if they
>> went for it, as then LLDB support could be trivially added to DDT as
>> well. *fingers crossed*
>> Especially cool since the LDC compiler seems to be keeping up with DMD
>> and being up to date better than GDC (this is just my impression, I
>> haven't checked this claim)
>
> Is it possible to use the GDB interface and invoke LLDB instead as the
> executable? Just to see what happens. They're supposed to be fairly
> compatible.
>

Nah, the interface that GDB frontends use is an API for backends only 
called MI (Machine Interface). It's different from the console 
interpreter, and LLDB does not support that:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/lldb-dev/2013-February/001456.html

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer