svn commit: r44478 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Apr 7 21:05:29 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Mon Apr  7 21:05:28 2014
New Revision: 44478
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44478

Log:
  - Add 2014Q1 status report on the LLDB port
  
  Submitted by:	emaste

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Mon Apr  7 20:51:17 2014	(r44477)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Mon Apr  7 21:05:28 2014	(r44478)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
       June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1722,4 +1722,81 @@ device vt_efifb</pre>
 	that interest these customers.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>LLDB Debugger Port</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Maste</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>emaste at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/lldb"/>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>LLDB is the the debugger project in the associated with
+	Clang/LLVM.  It supports the Mac OS X, Linux, and &os; platforms,
+	with ongoing work on Windows.  It builds on existing components
+	in the larger LLVM project, for example using Clang's expression
+	parser and LLVM's disassembler.</p>
+
+      <p>The majority of work since the last status update has been on
+	bugfixes and implementation of the remaining functionality
+	missing on &os;.  Most of these improvements are now in the LLDB
+	snapshot in the base system, which has been updated to upstream
+	Subversion revision r202189.  Some highlights of the new update
+	include:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Improvements to the remote GDB protocol client.</li>
+	<li>Bug fixes for big-endian targets.</li>
+	<li>Initial support for libdispatch (GCD) queues in the
+	  debuggee.</li>
+	<li>Add "step-avoid-libraries" setting.</li>
+	<li>IO subsystem improvements (including initial work on a
+	  curses GUI).</li>
+	<li>Support hardware watchpoints.</li>
+	<li>Improved unwinding through hand-written assembly
+	  functions.</li>
+	<li>Handle DW_TAG_unspecified_parameters for variadic
+	  functions.</li>
+	<li>Fix Ctrl+C interrupting a running inferior process.</li>
+	<li>Various bug fixes for memory leaks, LLDB segfaults, the C++
+	  demangler, ELF core files, DWARF debug info, and others.</li>
+      </ul>
+ 
+      <p>LLDB is currently not yet built by default and may be enabled
+	by adding <tt>WITH_LLDB=</tt> to <tt>src.conf(5)</tt>.  A port
+	will be made available for those wo wish to track ongoing
+	development more closely.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>DARP/AFRL</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>SRI International</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>University of Cambridge</sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Add support for remote debugging (gdbserver-compatible
+	debugserver).</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for local and core file kernel debugging.</task>
+
+      <task>Implement, fix or test support on all non-amd64
+	architectures.</task>
+
+      <task>Verify cross-debugging.</task>
+      <task>Investigate and fix test suite failures.</task>
+      <task>Package LLDB as a port.</task>
+
+      <task>Enable by default in the base system for working
+	architectures.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
