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Commit bc477dde authored by Vince Harron's avatar Vince Harron
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Linux - debugging of local processes via lldb-gdbserver

Instead of lldb calling the ptrace APIs directly, it launches an llgs
instance and communicates with it via the remote debug protocol.

This has two advantages.

There is more code shared between the remote debugging code path
and the local debugging code path. If a feature works in remote, it
probably works locally and vice-versa.

It makes us more architecturally similar to OSX (which also does
local debugging via a connection to debugserver).

This path is called LLGS local. We think that this configuration is
now at parity with (or better than) local linux debugging.

It is currently invoked if you have an environment variable defined
"PLATFORM_LINUX_FORCE_LLGS_LOCAL"

We would like to switch to LLGS local as the default path and only
use the non-LLGS path if someone has an environment variable defined
"PLATFORM_LINUX_DISABLE_LLGS_LOCAL"

Later, if all goes well, we would like to remove non-LLGS local
debugging support to simplify the codebase and avoid confusion.

llvm-svn: 230919
parent 66e7a5cc
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