"descriptive summaries" should only be used for small to medium binaries
because of the performance penalty the cause when completing types. I'm
defaulting it to false.
Besides that, the "raw child" for synthetics should be optional as well.
I'm defaulting it to false.
Both options can be set via a launch or attach config, following the
pattern of most settings. javascript extension wrappers can set these
settings on their own as well.
We've been displaying types and addresses for containers, but that's not
very useful information. A better approach is to compose the summary of
containers with the summary of a few of its children.
Not only that, we can dereference simple pointers and references to get
the summary of the pointer variable, which is also better than just
showing an anddress.
And in the rare case where the user wants to inspect the raw address,
they can always use the debug console for that.
For the record, this is very similar to what the CodeLLDB extension
does, and it seems to give a better experience.
An example of the new output:
<img width="494" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-06 at 2 24 27 PM"
src="https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/assets/1613874/588659b8-421a-4865-8d67-ce4b6182c4f9">
And this is the
<img width="476" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-06 at 2 46 30 PM"
src="https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/assets/1613874/5768a52e-a773-449d-9aab-1b2fb2a98035">
old output:
This is an ongoing series of commits that are reformatting our Python
code. Reformatting is done with `black` (23.1.0).
If you end up having problems merging this commit because you have made
changes to a python file, the best way to handle that is to run `git
checkout --ours <yourfile>` and then reformat it with black.
RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-document-and-standardize-python-code-style
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D151460
Eliminate boilerplate of having each test manually assign to `mydir` by calling
`compute_mydir` in lldbtest.py.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128077
The variable.rst documentation says:
```
If it returns a value, and that value is True, LLDB will be allowed to cache the children and the children count it previously obtained, and will not return to the provider class to ask. If nothing, None, or anything other than True is returned, LLDB will discard the cached information and ask. Regardless, whenever necessary LLDB will call update.
```
However, several update methods in gnu_libstdcpp.py were returning True,
which made lldb unaware of any changes in the corresponding objects.
This problem was visible by lldb-vscode in the following way:
- If a breakpoint is hit and there's a vector with the contents {1, 2},
it'll be displayed correctly.
- Then the user steps and the next stop contains the vector modified.
The program changed it to {1, 2, 3}
- frame var then displays {1, 2} incorrectly, due to the caching caused
by the update method
It's worth mentioning that none of libcxx.py'd update methods return True. Same for LibCxxVector.cpp, which returns false.
Added a very simple test that fails without this fix.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103209
Summary:
The request "evaluate" supports a "context" attribute, which is sent by VSCode. The attribute is defined here https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/specification#Requests_Evaluate
The "clipboard" context is not yet supported by lldb-vscode, so we can forget about it for now. The 'repl' (i.e. Debug Console) and 'watch' (i.e. Watch Expression) contexts must use the expression parser in case the frame's variable path is not enough, as the user expects these expressions to never fail. On the other hand, the 'hover' expression is invoked whenever the user hovers on any keyword on the UI and the user is fine with the expression not being fully resolved, as they know that the 'repl' case is the fallback they can rely on.
Given that the 'hover' expression is invoked many many times without the user noticing it due to it being triggered by the mouse, I'm making it use only the frame's variable path functionality and not the expression parser. This should speed up tremendously the responsiveness of a debug session when the user only sets source breakpoints and inspect local variables, as the entire debug info is not needed to be parsed.
Regarding tests, I've tried to be as comprehensive as possible considering a multi-file project. Fortunately, the results from the "hover" case are enough most of the times.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98656
