In certain occasions times, like when LLDB is initializing and
evaluating the .lldbinit files, it tries to print to stderr and stdout
directly. This confuses the IDE with malformed data, as it talks to
lldb-vscode using stdin and stdout following the JSON RPC protocol. This
ends up terminating the debug session with the user unaware of what's
going on. There might be other situations in which this can happen, and
they will be harder to debug than the .lldbinit case.
After several discussions with @clayborg, @yinghuitan and @aadsm, we
realized that the best course of action is to simply redirect stdout and
stderr to the console, without modifying LLDB itself. This will prove to
be resilient to future bugs or features.
I made the simplest possible redirection logic I could come up with. It
only works for POSIX, and to make it work with Windows should be merely
changing pipe and dup2 for the windows equivalents like _pipe and _dup2.
Sadly I don't have a Windows machine, so I'll do it later once my office
reopens, or maybe someone else can do it.
I'm intentionally not adding a stop-redirecting logic, as I don't see it
useful for the lldb-vscode case (why would we want to do that, really?).
I added a test.
Note: this is a simpler version of D80659. I first tried to implement a
RIIA version of it, but it was problematic to manage the state of the
thread and reverting the redirection came with some non trivial
complexities, like what to do with unflushed data after the debug
session has finished on the IDE's side.
Convert `assertTrue(a == b)` to `assertEqual(a, b)` to produce better failure messages.
These were mostly done via regex search & replace, with some manual fixes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95813
Summary: The IDE has no packets that are sent to lldb-vscode that say which thread and frame are selected. The only way we know is we get a request for variables for a stack frame via a "scopes" request. When we receive this packet we make that thread and frame the selected thread and frame in lldb. This way when people execute lldb commands in the debug console by prefixing the expression with the backtick character, we will have the right thread and frame selected. Previously this was not updated as new stack frames were selected.
Reviewers: labath, aadsm, wallace, JDevlieghere
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77347
