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<!-- 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>
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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@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>