[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D47302: [lldb, lldb-mi] Add method AddCurrentTargetSharedObjectPath to the SBDebugger.

Alexander Polyakov via Phabricator via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu May 24 10:59:19 PDT 2018


polyakov.alex added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D47302#1111351, @clayborg wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D47302#1111249, @polyakov.alex wrote:
>
> > In https://reviews.llvm.org/D47302#1111078, @clayborg wrote:
> >
> > > It might make sense to create a new SBTargetSettings class that has accessors. Then we can have to accessors on SBTarget:
> > >
> > >   class SBTarget {
> > >     static SBTargetSettings GetGlobalSettings();
> > >     SBTargetSettings GetSettings();
> > >   };
> > >
> >
> >
> > What global settings should be in your opinion? I guess that they should be stored in the `SBDebugger`, and a typical use case for them would be:
> >
> >   SBTarget target;
> >   target.HookUpGlobalSettings;
> >
>
>
> I would code it exactly as I specified above. Ask the SBTarget for its settings. We would only expose the "target.*" settings through the SBTargetSettings class. SBDebugger could have its own settings for everything that is stored in the Debugger.cpp g_properties variable, those would be in SBDebuggerSettings if we need access to those:
>
>   class SBDebugger {
>     static SBDebuggerSettings GetGlobalSettings();
>     SBDebuggerSettings GetSettings();
>   };
>
>
>
>
> >> This allows us to expose settings in a way that would allow us to serialize the settings and then load them again later.
> >> 
> >>   class SBTargetSettings {
> >>     // Accessors for "target...." setting
> >>     void AppendImageSearchPath(const char *from, const char *to);
> >>     size_t GetNumImageSearchPaths();
> >>     const char *GetImageSearchPathAtIndex(size_t i);
> >>     // Save and load all settings
> >>     void Load(SBStream &s);
> >>     void Save(SBStream &s);
> >>   };
> > 
> > Serialization sounds good, but, to accurately understand you, do you mean "classic" serialization with saving data into the file or serialization just for the time when debugger is run?
>
> SBStream can be a string buffer or a file. We should probably save to JSON and load from JSON. But that doesn't need to be done in this patch.


So, for now we'll just save settings to a string buffer?


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