[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb][docs] Resurrect the information on adding a new language (PR #109427)

Thorsten Schütt via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Sep 20 08:15:32 PDT 2024


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+# Adding Programming Language Support
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+LLDB has been architected to make it straightforward to add support for a
+programming language. Only a small enum in core LLDB needs to be modified to
+make LLDB aware of a new programming language. Everything else can be supplied
+in derived classes that need not even be present in the core LLDB repository.
+This makes it convenient for developers adding language support either in
+branches or downstream repositories since it practically eliminates the
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tschuett wrote:

I am not convinced of using branches in the repo.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/109427


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