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nodejs / llnode

An lldb plugin for Node.js and V8, which enables inspection of JavaScript states for insights into Node.js processes and their core dumps.
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Make the V8-related code lldb-agnostic #335

Closed mmarchini closed 4 years ago

mmarchini commented 4 years ago

Most of the code we have on llnode doesn't have to be tied to lldb. We use lldb entirely for memory access (either on a core dump or living process). If we separate the code, providing an interface that can be implemented, we could provide multiple backends for llnode. For example, we could keep the lldb build and provide a smaller build in Webassembly using libelf and our own REPL to read the core dump (this would improve installation for users quite a bit).

mmarchini commented 4 years ago

Not looking into this anymore, and since there wasn't much interest I'll close this. Doesn't mean we can't continue refactoring to accomplish this.