[lldb-dev] Any plan to support to debug Webassembly file?

[Terry Guo via lldb-dev]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 10:59 PM Greg Clayton <clayborg at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sep 9, 2019, at 7:07 AM, Terry Guo via lldb-dev <
> lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your help. I implemented a WASM file plugin under folder
> Plugins/ObjectFile/WASM. Now the LLDB can make a target for .wasm file. My
> .wasm file is built with clang and -g option. It does contain dwarf
> informations spreaded in a series of .debug_xx sections. However I failed
> to set breakpoint against a function name:
>
>  (lldb) target create "/home/projects/zz.wasm"
> Current executable set to '/home/projects/zz.wasm' (wasm32).
> (lldb) b main
> Breakpoint 1: no locations (pending).
> WARNING:  Unable to resolve breakpoint to any actual locations.
>
> Is this related to Symtab? Currently I left function "Symtab
> *ObjectFileWASM::GetSymtab()" as empty function because the .wasm file
> doesn't include one. Or should I make LLDB to utilize the .debug_line
> information? I couldn't figure out which information should be used to
> enable LLDB to correctly set the breakpoint. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> The ObjectFile subclasses are asked to create sections with the virtual:
>
>   virtual void ObjectFile::CreateSections(SectionList &unified_section_list)
> = 0;
>
> In this function you must correctly create sections and give them
> appropriate lldb::SectionType enum values. For ".debug_info", this should
> be eSectionTypeDWARFDebugInfo. There are many others. Check out the other
> ObjectFile subclasses like ObjectFilePECOFF::CreateSections() to see how
> they do this. Many object files have different naming mechanisms and
> restrictions (mach-o can only have 16 character section names in
> ObjectFileMachO), so we leave the conversion of section types to each
> ObjectFile since they can use flags, section names, and more to determine
> what kind of sections are available from their specific object file. Code
> that uses DWARF will ask for a section using lldb::SectionType values. If
> you fix this, the DWARF should be found and parsed and you might be able to
> set a breakpoint. We also do this to avoid code having to ask for sections
> by name, and then retry all sorts of different section names (".debug_info"
> for most, then fall back to "__debug_info" for mach-o, and add more for
> different object files in the future). This keeps the code that needs to
> access DWARF cleaner.
>
> Greg
>
>
Got it and Thanks Greg.

BR,
Terry
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