[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D151497: [lldb] Improve function caller error message

[Jonas Devlieghere via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

JDevlieghere updated this revision to Diff 525861.
JDevlieghere added a comment.

Rephrase error message for `UserExpression::Evaluate`


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  https://reviews.llvm.org/D151497/new/

https://reviews.llvm.org/D151497

Files:
  lldb/source/Expression/UserExpression.cpp
  lldb/source/Expression/UtilityFunction.cpp
  lldb/test/Shell/Expr/TestExited.test


Index: lldb/test/Shell/Expr/TestExited.test
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ lldb/test/Shell/Expr/TestExited.test
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# RUN: %clangxx_host %p/Inputs/call-function.cpp -g -o %t
+# RUN: %lldb %t -o 'r' -o 'expr strlen("")' | FileCheck %s
+# CHECK: error: unable to evaluate expression while the process is exited: the process must be stopped because the expression might requires allocating memory.
Index: lldb/source/Expression/UtilityFunction.cpp
===================================================================
--- lldb/source/Expression/UtilityFunction.cpp
+++ lldb/source/Expression/UtilityFunction.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "lldb/Target/Target.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/ConstString.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/Log.h"
+#include "lldb/Utility/State.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/Stream.h"
 
 using namespace lldb_private;
@@ -67,8 +68,10 @@
   // Since we might need to call allocate memory and maybe call code to make
   // the caller, we need to be stopped.
   if (process_sp->GetState() != lldb::eStateStopped) {
-    error.SetErrorString("Can't make a function caller while the process is " 
-                         "running");
+    error.SetErrorStringWithFormatv(
+        "Can't make a function caller while the process is {0}: the process "
+        "must be stopped to allocate memory.",
+        StateAsCString(process_sp->GetState()));
     return nullptr;
   }
 
Index: lldb/source/Expression/UserExpression.cpp
===================================================================
--- lldb/source/Expression/UserExpression.cpp
+++ lldb/source/Expression/UserExpression.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include "lldb/Utility/ConstString.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/LLDBLog.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/Log.h"
+#include "lldb/Utility/State.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/StreamString.h"
 
 using namespace lldb_private;
@@ -202,15 +203,18 @@
 
     return execution_results;
   }
-  // Since we might need to call allocate memory and maybe call code to make
-  // the caller, we need to be stopped.
+
+  // Since we might need to call allocate memory, we need to be stopped to run
+  // an expression.
   if (process != nullptr && process->GetState() != lldb::eStateStopped) {
-    error.SetErrorString("Can't make a function caller while the process is " 
-                          "running");
+    error.SetErrorStringWithFormatv(
+        "unable to evaluate expression while the process is {0}: the process "
+        "must be stopped because the expression might requires allocating "
+        "memory.",
+        StateAsCString(process->GetState()));
     return execution_results;
   }
 
-
   // Explicitly force the IR interpreter to evaluate the expression when the
   // there is no process that supports running the expression for us. Don't
   // change the execution policy if we have the special top-level policy that


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