[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] Add -exec-arguments command

[Ilia K]

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D6965#110558, @jingham wrote:

> So the way you set arguments when you launch a process through the SB API's (besides some old unstructured API's that we'll eventually deprecate) is through the SBLaunchInfo.  You're adding another way to get and set the arguments that's independent of that.
>
> I'd rather we didn't create another way to specify launch arguments.  You can already do that by creating an SBLaunchInfo with the appropriate args set, and use that for the launch.
>
> The SBTarget already provides a way to get the arguments (SBTarget::GetNumArguments/GetArgumentAtIndex.)  If you need to provide a way to get the current or previous launch arguments then we should add an API to copy out the SBLaunchInfo that was used for the launch.  That's not currently kept around so you may have to reconstruct it from bits sitting in the target, but that way we keep one structured way to get at all the launch parameters...


Yes, I had seen these functions but I was working on CLI support in MI mode. My goal was to fix the following cases:
First:

  -file-exec-and-symbols ~/p/hello
  -exec-arguments foo bar
  -interpreter-exec command "r"

Second:

  -file-exec-and-symbols ~/p/hello
  -interpreter-exec command "settings set target.run-args foo bar"
  -exec-run

Your way didn't work because when we specify arguments via "settings set target.run-args" they are stored as Debugger's property. Initially I had tried to set and get argument directly but it was awful because SBDebugger::GetInternalVariableValue returns arguments in dumped format, like:

  [0]: "--arg1"
  [1]: "2nd arg"
  [2]: "third_arg"
  [4]: "fourth=\"4th arg\""

Therefore I decided to extend public API.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D6965

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