[Lldb-commits] [lldb] d25b2c8 - [lldb][docs] Plain text format some things in remote debug guide
David Spickett via lldb-commits
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Fri Aug 29 02:44:39 PDT 2025
Author: David Spickett
Date: 2025-08-29T09:43:22Z
New Revision: d25b2c868e95d03fe7db85893f84633f78bfc7cf
URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d25b2c868e95d03fe7db85893f84633f78bfc7cf
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d25b2c868e95d03fe7db85893f84633f78bfc7cf.diff
LOG: [lldb][docs] Plain text format some things in remote debug guide
This emphasises that lldb-server and debugserver are binaries
rather than generic terms.
Format some option values too while I'm here.
Added:
Modified:
lldb/docs/use/remote.rst
Removed:
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diff --git a/lldb/docs/use/remote.rst b/lldb/docs/use/remote.rst
index e2009ccc65f71..b1c4ce7809d51 100644
--- a/lldb/docs/use/remote.rst
+++ b/lldb/docs/use/remote.rst
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ Remote system
*************
On Linux and Android, all required remote functionality is contained in the
-lldb-server binary. This binary combines the functionality of the platform and
+``lldb-server binary``. This binary combines the functionality of the platform and
gdb-remote stub. A single binary facilitates deployment and reduces code size,
-since the two functions share a lot of code. The lldb-server binary is also
-statically linked with the rest of LLDB (unlike lldb, which dynamically links
-to liblldb.so by default), so it does not have any dependencies on the rest of
+since the two functions share a lot of code. The ``lldb-server`` binary is also
+statically linked with the rest of LLDB (unlike ``lldb``, which dynamically links
+to ``liblldb.so`` by default), so it does not have any dependencies on the rest of
lldb. On macOS and iOS, the remote-gdb functionality is implemented by the
-debugserver binary, which you will need to deploy alongside lldb-server.
+``debugserver`` binary, which you will need to deploy alongside ``lldb-server``.
The binaries mentioned above need to be present on the remote system to enable
remote debugging. You can either compile on the remote system directly or copy
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@
diff ers from the local one, you will need to cross-compile the correct version
of the binaries. More information on cross-compiling LLDB can be found on the
build page.
-Once the binaries are in place, you just need to run the lldb-server in
-platform mode and specify the port it should listen on. For example, the
+Once the binaries are in place, you just need to run the ``lldb-server`` in
+``platform`` mode and specify the port it should listen on. For example, the
command
::
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ command
remote% lldb-server platform --listen "*:1234" --server
will start the LLDB platform and wait for incoming connections from any address
-to port 1234. Specifying an address instead of * will only allow connections
-originating from that address. Adding a --server parameter to the command line
+to port ``1234``. Specifying an address instead of ``*`` will only allow connections
+originating from that address. Adding a ``--server`` parameter to the command line
will fork off a new process for every incoming connection, allowing multiple
parallel debug sessions.
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