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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ping!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> lldb-dev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:lldb-dev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Thirumurthi, Ashok<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 02, 2013 10:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Enrico Granata<br>
<b>Cc:</b> lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [lldb-dev] PATCH for REVIEW - Fix [Bug 15038] LLDB does not support printing wide-character variables on Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Enrico,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Your suggestions got me thinking that the version of ReadCStringFromMemory that takes a char* can be extended to support null terminators of any width. The
attached patch is therefore a variation on what you suggested that consolidates the read and validation into one method, and handles strings of any type width. In addition, this implementation provides a null terminator when a partial read occurs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Incidentally, in the old implementation, strlen would always succeed on the first call, because curr_dst is set to dst, which is memset to 0. The current implementation
will scan for a null terminator within bytes_read and stop reading when one is found.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If this is the right approach, let me know if I should modify SBProcess to match (i.e to add the new parameter type_width). Also, I noticed that this code
is largely duplicated in methods of the same name in class Target. Can I assume that a complete patch would include changes to all of those methods? Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Enrico Granata [<a href="mailto:egranata@apple.com">mailto:egranata@apple.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 01, 2013 6:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Thirumurthi, Ashok<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu">lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [lldb-dev] PATCH for REVIEW - Fix [Bug 15038] LLDB does not support printing wide-character variables on Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:50 PM, "Thirumurthi, Ashok" <<a href="mailto:ashok.thirumurthi@intel.com">ashok.thirumurthi@intel.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi Enrico,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">Ø</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">If we go this route, the same thing
might have to be done for ValueObject::ReadPointedString() which does the same kind of “unbounded read”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I see. Looking through the code base for methods that call GetMaximumSizeOfStringSummary, I see that there are a number of code paths to handle. The attached patch lowers
the fix so that this functionality can be used as needed via a helper method in Process to validate an unbounded read.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We already have a Process::ReadCStringFromMemory - that does read&validation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You might instead want to consider making a Process::ReadWStringFromMemory<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The mere act of validating that a buffer is 0-terminated is not a Process specific operation at all<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">Ø</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">But I am inclined to believe
the best option would be to adopt your ProcessMonitor fix that reads smaller and smaller chunks and then returns the number of bytes read and no error</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well, the unbounded read is a characteristic of the use case (i.e. string reads), not the implementation. The behavior of the plug-in under this type of request is implementation
specific, and an error is always reasonable since there was a failure to read the requested size in bytes. My point is that the corner case of null terminator in the last 8-byte read needs to be tested and fixed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">Ø</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">What troubles me a little with the overall
idea of this patch is that we are putting a workaround for a lower-level issue in higher-level code.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">Ø</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I would prefer, if we do this, that
at least we put the code around #if defined (__linux__), as in:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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implementation issue</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Note that the issue can appear with any ptrace implementation. So, I lowered the fix to the ProcessPOSIX plugin, which is consistent with the case of eErrorTypePOSIX.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t think that is a Process responsibility to validate a buffer<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you want to make it a new type of request, ReadWString, and pass it a size so it knows how many consecutive bytes must be 0 to mean EndOfData, that would be fine.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It would look like<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and there you could check the end-of-string<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then the WString data formatter can be moved to use this new read request, but you will have to ensure that partial strings are accepted :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt">Enrico Granata<br>
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<a href="mailto:egranata@.com">egranata@.com</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">✆</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> 27683</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks again for the feedback,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ashok</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Enrico
Granata [<a href="mailto:egranata@apple.com">mailto:egranata@apple.com</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Thirumurthi, Ashok<br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu">lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [lldb-dev] PATCH for REVIEW - Fix [Bug 15038] LLDB does not support printing wide-character variables on Linux</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">now I pretty much see where you are coming from.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">What we have here is a Linux-specific implementation issue (which of course is not going to get fixed anytime soon :-)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">What troubles me a little with the overall idea of this patch is that we are putting a workaround for a lower-level issue in higher-level code.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">If we go this route, the same thing might have to be done for ValueObject::ReadPointedString() which does the same kind of “unbounded read”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I would prefer, if we do this, that at least we put the code around #if defined (__linux__), as in:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">+ char terminator[4] = {'\0', '\0', '\0', '\0'};</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">But I am inclined to believe the best option would be to adopt your ProcessMonitor fix that reads smaller and smaller chunks and then returns the number of bytes read and no error - that would make all unbounded-read-based
calls just work without having to add Linux-specific patches around (main issue being that now we all have to remember that anything that reads a string-like thing has to add a similar workaround or cause Linux unhappiness)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Enrico Granata<br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">✉</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><a href="mailto:egranata@"><span style="color:purple">egranata@.com</span></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">✆</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt">27683</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:39 AM, "Thirumurthi, Ashok" <<a href="mailto:ashok.thirumurthi@intel.com"><span style="color:purple">ashok.thirumurthi@intel.com</span></a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the feedback, Enrico,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m relying on the fact that when the wstring is larger than the default size (1GB in your example), we won’t get a ptrace error like EIO or EFAULT. So, there will be no search
for a null terminator.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If we can’t rely on the null terminator, it’s hard to know if a different error occurred. The trouble is that there is inconsistency in the PTRACE_PEEK implementation on Linux
that is more or less arbitrary (sigh), so the out-of-bounds read can generate EIO or EFAULT. In particular, EIO can mean a number of things:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> “</span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">request</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">is
invalid, or an attempt was made to read from or write to an invalid area in the parent's or child's memory, or there was a word-alignment violation, or an invalid signal was specified during a restart request.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">”
–<a href="http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace"><span style="color:purple">http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In addition, the Linux ProcessMonitor reads in 8-byte chunks, so ReadUTFBufferAndDumpToStream will probably fail (for the right reasons) in the case where at least part of the
null terminator was in that block. I see that as an implementation detail that can be resolved in ProcessMonitor by reading smaller chunks until PTRACE_PEEK succeeds (i.e. a good follow-up patch).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Do let me know if you feel this is okay to commit as is. Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ashok</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Enrico
Granata [<a href="mailto:egranata@apple.com"><span style="color:purple">mailto:egranata@apple.com</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Thirumurthi, Ashok<br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu"><span style="color:purple">lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [lldb-dev] PATCH for REVIEW - Fix [Bug 15038] LLDB does not support printing wide-character variables on Linux</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi Ashok,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">thanks for submitting an LLDB patch :)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I have looked at the code and while I see where the patch is coming from, I see a potential issue with it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The code in ReadUTFBufferAndDumpToStream, which is what you are editing, is meant to work on a partial string (i.e. one that does not have a NULL terminator at the end). The reason for that is that you might
have a wstring that is 1GB long and we would not want to try and read all of it and then display it. What we do is pick a size and only extract that much data. For obvious reasons, your string might be longer than our upper boundary, so you would get a chunk
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Is there any reason why you can’t just check if (error == EIO and data_read > 0) and if so treat this as a “partial string” condition and keep going?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Enrico Granata<br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">✉</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><a href="mailto:egranata@"><span style="color:purple">egranata@.com</span></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">✆</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt">27683</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:52 PM, "Thirumurthi, Ashok" <<a href="mailto:ashok.thirumurthi@intel.com"><span style="color:purple">ashok.thirumurthi@intel.com</span></a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The root cause for Bug 15038 is a ptrace EIO that can occur because we don't know the size of a (UTF) string and so read a fixed number of characters for strings. The attached fix accepts EIO in the case
where data has been read and a null terminator of the correct size and alignment was found.<br>
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- Ashok<br>
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Subject: [lldb-dev] [Bug 15038] New: LLDB does not support printing wide-character variables on Linux<br>
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<a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15038"><span style="color:purple">http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15038</span></a><br>
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Bug #: 15038<br>
Summary: LLDB does not support printing wide-character<br>
variables on Linux<br>
Product: lldb<br>
Version: unspecified<br>
Platform: PC<br>
OS/Version: Linux<br>
Status: NEW<br>
Severity: enhancement<br>
Priority: P<br>
Component: All Bugs<br>
AssignedTo:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu"><span style="color:purple">lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu</span></a><br>
ReportedBy:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:daniel.malea@intel.com"><span style="color:purple">daniel.malea@intel.com</span></a><br>
Classification: Unclassified<br>
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Printing a variable of wchar_t type does not behave as expected and results in garbage being printed on the screen.<br>
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To reproduce, remove the @expectedFailureLinux decorator from TestChar1632T.py and TestCxxWCharT.py and run:<br>
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python dotest.py --executable <path-to-lldb> lang/cpp/char1632_t lang/cpp/wchar_t<br>
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