[lldb-dev] Port LLDB to ppc64le (ABIv2) on linux

[Howard Hellyer via lldb-dev]

> > Hi Gustavo,
> > 
> > Were you interested in support for live debugging via ptrace or 
reading
> > from core files? (Or both!)
> 
> Mainly live debugging, but I have the feeling that implementing 
> post-mortem wouldn't be such a hassle afterwards. (register read/
> write, stack walk... they would all be done at this point).

I think on Linux ELF and DWARF take care of most of the issues, my changes 
were mostly to do with making LLDB aware that ppc64 and little endian was 
an option and sending it down the right code paths. Once it knew the 
registers for that combination I think it could cope with walking the 
stacks.

> > Live debugging looked a bit more complicated but that's probably 
because
> > most of my experience has been with post-mortem debugging. I think I
> > stopped work on the core file support because I didn't have the time 
to
> > learn about the live debugging side and it didn't seem to make sense 
to
> > add core file support without live debug.
> 
> Wait. As far as I understood, LLDB already supports ppc64 big 
> endian, right? (particularly the ppc970 model) Plenty of things 
> changed since then but I guess I can use it as a reference (despite 
> endianness, of course).

Yes, but I think it supports ppc64 on FreeBSD. The register context code 
in source/Plugins/Process/Linux and source/Plugins/Process/FreeBSD 
suggests that's the case. I suspect you can use the FreeBSD code as a 
reference. However this is where it goes outside what I'm familiar with 
and you are probably better off asking someone else for more details. 
There's a RegisterContextCorePOSIX_powerpc in 
source/Plugins/Process/elf-core/ on the post-mortem side already which 
made the Linux core dump support easier.
 
Howard Hellyer
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