This setting was added last year, defaulting to false. There have been
no bug reports about the svr4 code path since then, and the using this
packet is definitely faster than walking the module list from lldb.
Set the default value of the setting to true, as that is a better
default. Users can still change it back if encountering problems, or we
can revert the change as well, in case of bigger issues.
I also add a note to the setting description that it is only effective
if lldb is built with xml support.
until we can automatically fall back to p/P if g/G are not supported;
it looks like there is a bug in debugserver's g/G packets taht needs
to be fixed, or debugserver should stop supporting g/G until that bug
is fixed. But we need lldb to be able to fall back to p/P correctly
for that to be a viable workaround.
Following up on https://reviews.llvm.org/D62221, this change introduces
the settings plugin.process.gdb-remote.use-g-packet-for-reading. When
they are on, 'g' packets are used for reading registers.
Using 'g' packets can improve performance by reducing the number of
packets exchanged between client and server when a large number of
registers needs to be fetched.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62931
Summary:
This is a bit more explicit, and makes it possible to build LLDB without
varying the -I lines per-directory.
(The latter is useful because many build systems only allow this to be
configured per-library, and LLDB is insufficiently layered to be split into
multiple libraries on stricter build systems).
(My comment on D65185 has some more context)
Reviewers: JDevlieghere, labath, chandlerc, jdoerfert
Reviewed By: labath
Subscribers: mgorny, lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65397
Patch by Sam McCall!
llvm-svn: 367241
Pavel Labath