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Re: [LLVMdev] Connecting JITted code to gdb
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at google dot com>
- Cc: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs dot uiuc dot edu>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:17:49 -0600
- Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Connecting JITted code to gdb
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>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com> writes:
Jeffrey> I'm adding the gdb list because it appears there's currently
Jeffrey> no way to tell gdb about newly-JITted code.
Jeffrey> It would be better to have an interface through which a
Jeffrey> JITting library could tell gdb about newly-generated code.
Jeffrey> I don't really know enough about the internals of LLVM or gdb to make
Jeffrey> any recommendations, but I think it would be useful to find some way
Jeffrey> for them (and other debuggers and JITs) to talk to each other.
This sounds like an excellent project.
I think the only real barrier is finding someone dedicated to making
it work.
Tom