[lldb-dev] Question about remote debugging protocol setup

[David Earlam]

>So I'm wondering why does lldb not send the qSupported request? Is it a deliberate omission or is this still a work in progress?
>
>All viewpoints appreciated,
>thanks Matt

Matt, 
I think source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient::GetRemoteQSupported () is lazily evaluated thanks to work by Steve Pucci in January (Thu 23/01/2014 21:04  [lldb-dev] [PATCH] new utility methods in GDBRemoteCommunicationClient)

That is, the qSupported is only sent when the debugger really needs to know about certain features like the SVR_4 library list - which  would be irrelevant on a platform with no ld.so dynamic linker. Lldb should  then start slightly faster than gdb for some scenarios.

David Earlam






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