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| <h1 class ="postheader">Features</h1> |
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| <p>LLDB supports a broad variety of basic debugging features such as |
| reading DWARF, supporting step, next, finish, backtraces, etc. Some |
| more interested bits are:</p> |
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| <li>Plug-in architecture for portability and extensibility:</li> |
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| <li>Object file parsers for executable file formats. Support currently |
| includes Mach-O (32 and 64-bit) & ELF (32-bit).</li> |
| <li>Object container parsers to extract object files contained within a file. |
| Support currently includes universal Mach-O files & BSD Archives. |
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| <li>Debug symbol file parsers to incrementally extract debug information from |
| object files. Support currently includes DWARF & Mach-O symbol |
| tables.</li> |
| <li>Symbol vendor plug-ins collect data from a variety of different sources |
| for an executable object.</li> |
| <li>Disassembly plug-ins for each architecture. Support currently includes |
| an LLVM disassembler for <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/01/x86-disassembler.html">i386, x86-64</a> |
| , ARM/Thumb, and PPC64le</li> |
| <li>Debugger plug-ins implement the host and target specific functions |
| required to debug.</li> |
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| <li>SWIG-generated script bridging allows Python to access and control the |
| public API of the debugger library.</li> |
| <li>A remote protocol server, debugserver, implements Mac OS X debugging on |
| i386 and x86-64.</li> |
| <li>A command line debugger - the lldb executable itself.</li> |
| <li>A framework API to the library.</li> |
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