[lldb-dev] Help needed regarding LLDB/MI

[RISHABH GUPTA via lldb-dev]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 11, 2016, at 9:30 AM, RISHABH GUPTA via lldb-dev <
> lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have started using LLDB/MI but there are some commands that are not
> working .I start the MI in terminal as "lldb-mi-3.6 --interpreter" and then
> launch the application that  I want to debug but commands like "n"
> ,"list","continue" ,"step" are not working.There is this error message that
> gets displayed on giving these commands
> >
> > "^error,msg="Driver. Received command 'command_name'. It was not
> handled. Command 'continue' not in Command Factory"
>
> Was this something you were typing at a "(gdb)" prompt?


Yes


> If not, it sounds like your software is using GDB commands instead of
> using the actual MI commands and the best solutions is to fix your software
> to actually use the MI commands instead of sending GDB command interpreter
> commands.
>
> I believe there is some way to send a gdb command line command, so if you
> have a "(gdb) " prompt, and we will pass the command along to LLDB.
> >
> > I tried looking for  the substitutes of these commands here
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/tree/7535162178eada833e72a5525fc26dcc04e7331e/tools/lldb-mi
> but could not find any.
> >
> > Could anyone please help me out with this?
>
> So check if your IDE is not actually using MI. Your IDE shouldn't send a
> "continue" GDB command interpreter command, but it should send an
> "exec-continue" MI packet since you are using MI. Don't sent a "n" packet,
> but send a "exec-next" packet. Etc...
>
>
till now I have been using the MI in the terminal itself .I figured out the
corresponding MI commands for 'n','step','continue' but not for 'list'.

The thing is GDB/MI commands listed here
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI.html#GDB_002fMI  don't
just work outside the box when used with LLDB/MI .for example:

1.In GDB/MI -exec-next commands works fine but to make it work for LLDB/MI
we need to provide the thread number ,so the command becomes "-exec-next
--thread 1"

2.-var-update command ,In GDB/MI "-var-update *" works fine  but the same
command in LLDB/MI gives
"^error,msg="Command 'var-update'. Variable '*' does not exist"

So it takes time to figure out the correct usage of the command


Let me know what your IDE is doing.
>

They are implementing the MI only

>
> Greg
>
>
>
Thanks
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