Often when attaching, you know the executable you are planning to attach to.
So the "normal" workflow is to create a target, then attach to the process with
that target's executable. This is particularly useful for remote debugging,
since having a local copy of the binary will mean less data lldb has to ship
over the remote connection. It also means you can prep the target with
breakpoints & settings prior to attach.
The case where you don't know the binary before you attach is a degenerate case
of this, and so the sensible thing is to create an empty target, and use that
to attach. Then attaching will fill in this empty target.
That makes more sense to me than having the debugger - which is the only thing
above the target - support "Attach to anonymous app" but the target do "attach
to known app".
BTW, the most straightforward way to create an empty target is to call
SBDebugger.CreateTarget(""). I added a note to this effect in the SBDebugger
help preamble.
Jim
> On Feb 1, 2016, at 2:02 AM, Pavel Labath via lldb-dev
> <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> it's a bit un-intuitive, but you should be able to create a target
> with a null pointer for the executable, and use that to attach (see
> CommandObjectProcessAttach::DoExecute).
>
> BTW, if you find the existing API documentation too vague, we'd be
> happy to accept any improvements.
>
> cheers,
> pl
>
>
> On 30 January 2016 at 05:42, Jeffrey Tan via lldb-dev
> <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Normally if you want to attach to a process you only have the pid/name of
>> the process. How do you get SBTarget? Am I supposed to call
>> SBDebugger.CreateTargetWithFileAndArch() against a dummy executable? Why do
>> we require a dummy SBTarget before attaching? This seems to be a wrong
>> design to me... Thanks.
>>
>>
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