Summary:
After this change a sythetic child provider can generate a special child
named "$$dereference$$" what if present is used when "operator*" or
"operator->" used on a ValueObject. The goal of the change is to make
expressions like "up->foo" work inside the "frame variable" command.
Reviewers: labath, jingham
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31368
llvm-svn: 299251
On a suggestion from Jim Ingham, this class allows you to very easily define synthetic child providers that return a synthetic value (in the sense of r219330), but no children
Also, document this new feature in our www docs
llvm-svn: 219337
Changed all relevant test cases to verify that MightHaveChildren() works correctly for objects of interest
Added a bunch of convenience methods for test cases to use: target(), process(), thread() and frame() which mimic the lldb.X convenience variables
As a bonus, edited the documentation on the website to describe the new method available for synthetic children providers writers to implement!
That's all folks!
llvm-svn: 166535
This is the feature that allowed the user to have things like:
class Base { ... };
class Derived : public Base { ... };
and have formatters defined for Base work automatically for Derived.
This feature turned out to be too expensive since it requires completing types.
This patch takes care of removing cascading (other than typedefs chain cascading), updating the test suite accordingly, and adding required Cocoa class names to keep the AppKit formatters working
llvm-svn: 153272
Renamed format "signed decimal" to be "decimal". "unsigned decimal" remains unchanged:
- the name "signed decimal" was interfering with symbol %S (use summary) in summary strings.
because of the way summary strings are implemented, this did not really lead to a bug, but
simply to performing more steps than necessary to display a summary. this is fixed.
Documentation improvements (more on synthetic children, some information on filters). This is still a WIP.
llvm-svn: 138384
(e.g. ${var%S}). this might already be the default if your variable is of an aggregate type
new feature: synthetic filters. you can restrict the number of children for your variables to only a meaningful subset
- the restricted list of children obeys the typical rules (e.g. summaries prevail over children)
- one-line summaries show only the filtered (synthetic) children, if you type an expanded summary string, or you use Python scripts, all the real children are accessible
- to provide a synthetic children list use the "type synth add" command, as in:
type synth add foo_type --child varA --child varB[0] --child varC->packet->flags[1-4]
(you can use ., ->, single-item array operator [N] and bitfield operator [N-M]; array slice access is not supported, giving simplified names to expression paths is not supported)
- a new -S option to frame variable and target variable lets you override synthetic children and instead show real ones
llvm-svn: 135731
The "systemwide summaries" feature has been removed and replaced with a more general and
powerful mechanism.
Categories:
- summaries can now be grouped into buckets, called "categories" (it is expected that categories
correspond to libraries and/or runtime environments)
- to add a summary to a category, you can use the -w option to type summary add and give
a category name (e.g. type summary add -f "foo" foo_t -w foo_category)
- categories are by default disabled, which means LLDB will not look into them for summaries,
to enable a category use "type category enable". once a category is enabled, LLDB will
look into that category for summaries. the rules are quite trivial: every enabled category
is searched for an exact match. if an exact match is nowhere to be found, any match is
searched for in every enabled category (whether it involves cascading, going to base classes,
...). categories are searched into the order in which they were enabled (the most recently
enabled category first, then the second most and so on..)
- by default, most commands that deal with summaries, use a category named "default" if no
explicit -w parameter is given (the observable behavior of LLDB should not change when
categories are not explicitly used)
- the systemwide summaries are now part of a "system" category
llvm-svn: 135463
- you can use a Python script to write a summary string for data-types, in one of
three ways:
-P option and typing the script a line at a time
-s option and passing a one-line Python script
-F option and passing the name of a Python function
these options all work for the "type summary add" command
your Python code (if provided through -P or -s) is wrapped in a function
that accepts two parameters: valobj (a ValueObject) and dict (an LLDB
internal dictionary object). if you use -F and give a function name,
you're expected to define the function on your own and with the right
prototype. your function, however defined, must return a Python string
- test case for the Python summary feature
- a few quirks:
Python summaries cannot have names, and cannot use regex as type names
both issues will be fixed ASAP
major redesign of type summary code:
- type summary working with strings and type summary working with Python code
are two classes, with a common base class SummaryFormat
- SummaryFormat classes now are able to actively format objects rather than
just aggregating data
- cleaner code to print descriptions for summaries
the public API now exports a method to easily navigate a ValueObject hierarchy
New InputReaderEZ and PriorityPointerPair classes
Several minor fixes and improvements
llvm-svn: 135238
- formats %s %char[] %c and %a now work to print 0-terminated c-strings if they are applied to a char* or char[] even without the [] operator (e.g. ${var%s})
- array formats (char[], intN[], ..) now work when applied to an array of a scalar type even without the [] operator (e.g. ${var%int32_t[]})
LLDB will not crash because of endless loop when trying to obtain a summary for an object that has no value and references itself in its summary string
In many cases, a wrong summary string will now display an "<error>" message instead of giving out an empty string
llvm-svn: 135007
new GetValueForExpressionPath() method in ValueObject to navigate expression paths in a more bitfield vs slices aware way
changes to the varformats.html document (WIP)
llvm-svn: 134679
Tamas Berghammer