llvm dev - Jun 2008 - [LLVMdev] New llvm-db ?

Hi,

I'm interested in hearing your opinions on whether a new debugger is a 
worthwhile goal.
The kind of debugger that I'm referring to is not a LLVM bitcode-only 
one like the (now deprecated) llvm-db, but a native one with full 
support for both native code and LLVM JIT generated code.

In the short term it would be far easier to modify gdb and make it 
cooperate with the LLVM JIT compiler, but in the long term it seems that 
a new debugger engine based on a library architecture, that is easily 
extendable and embeddable like all of the LLVM projects, would be useful 
in general, and in particular very useful for projects like vmkit.


I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on this.


-Argiris

On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Argiris Kirtzidis wrote:
> I'm interested in hearing your opinions on whether a new debugger is a
> worthwhile goal.
> The kind of debugger that I'm referring to is not a LLVM bitcode-only
> one like the (now deprecated) llvm-db, but a native one with full
> support for both native code and LLVM JIT generated code.
>
> In the short term it would be far easier to modify gdb and make it
> cooperate with the LLVM JIT compiler, but in the long term it seems  
> that
> a new debugger engine based on a library architecture, that is easily
> extendable and embeddable like all of the LLVM projects, would be  
> useful
> in general, and in particular very useful for projects like vmkit.
I think that would be a great project.  It is a big one, but could be  
built incrementally up like we did with clang.

-Chris