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diff --git a/lldb/docs/status/features.rst b/lldb/docs/status/features.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..43eb7408b01 --- /dev/null +++ b/lldb/docs/status/features.rst @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Features +======== + +LLDB supports a broad variety of basic debugging features such as reading DWARF, supporting step, next, finish, backtraces, etc. Some more interested bits are: + +* Plug-in architecture for portability and extensibility: + + * Object file parsers for executable file formats. Support currently includes Mach-O (32 and 64-bit) & ELF (32-bit). + * Object container parsers to extract object files contained within a file. Support currently includes universal Mach-O files & BSD Archives. + * Debug symbol file parsers to incrementally extract debug information from object files. Support currently includes DWARF & Mach-O symbol tables. + * Symbol vendor plug-ins collect data from a variety of different sources for an executable object. + * Disassembly plug-ins for each architecture. Support currently includes an LLVM disassembler for i386, x86-64 , ARM/Thumb, and PPC64le + * Debugger plug-ins implement the host and target specific functions required to debug. + +* SWIG-generated script bridging allows Python to access and control the public API of the debugger library. +* A remote protocol server, debugserver, implements Mac OS X debugging on i386 and x86-64. +* A command line debugger - the lldb executable itself. +* A framework API to the library. |
