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21				<h1 class ="postheader">What is LLDB?</h1>
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23                    <p>LLDB is a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built as a set
24                        of reusable components which highly leverage existing libraries in the
25                        larger LLVM Project, such as the Clang expression parser and LLVM
26                        disassembler.</p>
27                    <p>LLDB is in early development, but is mature enough to support basic
28                        debugging scenarios on Mac OS X in C, Objective-C and C++.</p>
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30                    <p>All of the code in the LLDB project is available under the standard
31                        <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#license">LLVM
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38				<h1 class ="postheader">Why a new debugger?</h1>
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40					  <p>In order to achieve our goals we decided to start with a fresh architecture
41					     that would support modern multi-threaded programs, handle debugging symbols
42					     in an efficient manner, use compiler based code knowledge and have plug-in
43					     support for functionality and extensions. Additionally we want the debugger
44					     capabilities to be available to other analysis tools, be they scripts or
45					     compiled programs, without requiring them to be GPL.</p>
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54				   	<p>LLDB is known to work on the following platforms, but ports to new
55				       platforms are welcome:</p>
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57				   	<li>Mac OS X i386 and x86-64</li>
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68				    <p>To check out the code, use:</p>
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71				        <li>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lldb/trunk lldb</li>
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74				    <p>Note that LLDB currently only builds out of the box on Mac OS X with
75				        Xcode, but patches to improve portability are definitely welcome.</p>
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77				    <p>Discussions about LLDB should go to the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev">lldb-dev</a> mailing
78				        list.  Commit messages for the lldb SVN module are automatically sent to the
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