[lldb-dev] LLGS for Free/NetBSD (was: Re: [PATCH] D25756: FreeBSD ARM support for software single step.)

[Ed Maste via lldb-dev]

On 24 October 2016 at 06:26, Pavel Labath <labath at google.com> wrote:
>
> It's not my place to tell you how to work, but I'd recommend a
> different approach to this. If you base your work on the current
> FreeBSD in-process plugin, then when you get around to actually
> implementing remote support, you will find that you will have to
> rewrite most of what you have already done to work with lldb-server,
> as it uses completely different class hierarchies and everything. I'd
> recommend starting with lldb-server right away. It's going to be a bit
> more work as (I assume) freebsd implementation is closer to what you
> need than linux, but I think it will save you time in the long run. I
> can help you with factoring out any linux-specific code that you
> encounter.

I definitely second the approach Pavel suggests here, and am happy to
work with others on refactoring the Linux lldb-server so that we can
get it to support both FreeBSD and NetBSD at the same time.

A direct port of the current FreeBSD support probably would result in
a basic level of support running sooner, but that work would be
largely thrown away in a future migration to lldb-server.