[Lldb-commits] [PATCH 0/9] linux: process plugin updates
Greg Clayton
gclayton at apple.com
Tue Jan 4 13:28:37 PST 2011
These look fine, feel free to commit them when you can.
Greg Clayton
On Jan 4, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Stephen Wilson wrote:
> This patch series updates the ProcessLinux plugin so that it builds again under
> linux.
>
> The ProcessLinux plugin has always been incomplete. This patch series does not
> add any new functionality.
>
> A vital component which the Linux platform has always lacked is a DynamicLoader
> plugin. Previously we worked around this limitation by simply marking the
> sections of the executable we were debugging as loaded. This allowed LLDB to
> work with static executables. However, this was simply a hack and does not work
> with the current code base. This functionality is therefore removed in patch 4
> of this series.
>
> The net result is that there is essentially zero functionality under Linux at
> this time.
>
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