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  11       The <strong>LLDB</strong> Debugger
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  20                                 <h1 class ="postheader">Features</h1>
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  22                                    <p>LLDB supports a broad variety of basic debugging features such as
  23                                       reading DWARF, supporting step, next, finish, backtraces, etc.  Some
  24                                       more interested bits are:</p>
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  27                                        <li>Plug-in architecture for portability and extensibility:</li>
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  29                                            <li>Object file parsers for executable file formats. Support currently
  30                                                includes Mach-O (32 and 64-bit) &amp; ELF (32-bit).</li>
  31                                            <li>Object container parsers to extract object files contained within a file.
  32                                                Support currently includes universal Mach-O files &amp; BSD Archives.
  33                                                </li>
  34                                            <li>Debug symbol file parsers to incrementally extract debug information from
  35                                                object files. Support currently includes DWARF &amp; Mach-O symbol
  36                                                tables.</li>
  37                                            <li>Symbol vendor plug-ins collect data from a variety of different sources
  38                                                for an executable object.</li>
  39                                            <li>Disassembly plug-ins for each architecture. Support currently includes
  40                                                an LLVM disassembler for <a href="http://blog.llvm.org/2010/01/x86-disassembler.html">i386, x86-64</a>
  41                                                , &amp; ARM/Thumb.</li>
  42                                             <li>Debugger plug-ins implement the host and target specific functions
  43                                                 required to debug.</li>
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  45                                     <li>SWIG-generated script bridging allows Python to access and control the
  46                                         public API of the debugger library.</li>
  47                                     <li>A remote protocol server, debugserver, implements Mac OS X debugging on
  48                                         i386 and x86-64.</li>
  49                                     <li>A command line debugger - the lldb executable itself.</li>
  50                                     <li>A framework API to the library.</li>
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