<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> After talking with Todd Fiala, he suggested writing an implementation of NativeProcessProtocol and NativeThreadProtocol that inspects the local process. This would allow same-process debugging without the expensive IPC that Ruminate has.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The idea here was that parts of lldb that currently depend on Process/Thread, and may later be adapted to work with NativeProcessProtocol and NativeThreadProtocol, would still be able to work on a local process introspectively if there was a NativeProcessProtocol/NativeThreadProtocol that operated on itself. I was thinking of it more as a way to enable other parts of the lldb machinery within the local process space.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-Todd</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Russell Harmon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eatnumber1@google.com" target="_blank">eatnumber1@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I've been looking into better leveraging LLDB for debugging it's own process, effectively allowing you to inspect your own program programmatically with a debugger-centric view.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I already built a functioning API for introspecting C programs using LLDB called <a href="https://github.com/eatnumber1/ruminate" target="_blank">Ruminate</a>, with an accompanying <a href="http://rus.har.mn/files/project-report.pdf" target="_blank">paper</a> written about it, but it has to jump through some rather expensive IPC hoops in order to do so.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After talking with Todd Fiala, he suggested writing an implementation of NativeProcessProtocol and NativeThreadProtocol that inspects the local process. This would allow same-process debugging without the expensive IPC that Ruminate has.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Basically I want to be able to use LLDB as a high-level API to inspect your own process, with all of the details of debug symbols, stack traversal, etc handled for you.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div>
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