<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">LLDB does only show variables that are in lexical scope<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> in </span>...<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Ah, yes, I got confused because I thought this filter was implemented inside LLDB, yet the `frame variable` command was returning me all local variables; I now notice that it's a filter that's implemented inside the IDE (I'm looking at Android Studio). </div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span> </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks for the explanation and also the details about the compiler provided info.</div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 10:15 PM Greg Clayton <<a href="mailto:clayborg@gmail.com">clayborg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 9, 2021, at 11:39 AM, Emre Kultursay via lldb-dev <<a href="mailto:lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">When debugging C/C++ (statically scoped languages), does LLDB recognize (or does it have a setting for it) that a local variable is not defined yet at the current program address (i.e., DW_AT_decl_line is less than the source line for the address), and thus, not include it in the list of locals (i.e., frame variable)? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Does it make sense to have such a setting? The goal is to reduce the clutter in locals list.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>LLDB does not. We show exactly what the compiler emits. DWARF, the debug information, is powerful enough to say from [0x1000-0x1010) the variable is here, and from [0x1020-0x1100) the variable is there, these are called location expressions. But the compiler, for non optimized code, always just emits the variable's location on the stack and doesn't correctly limit it to when the variable has been initialized.</div><div><br></div><div>So this could easily be fixed in the compiler. LLDB really needs to listen to what the compiler says because once you enable optimizations, the compiler can end up moving all sorts of code around and the variable _could_ become initialized before the DW_AT_decl_line. </div><div><br></div><div>So we don't want to pretend we know better than the compiler when displaying debug information. But even if the compiler does emit better debug information that does give correct location expressions, we would still show the variable because it is in scope. LLDB does only show variables that are in lexical scope currently in Xcode, lldb-vscode, lldb, and Android Studio AFAIK. What debugger are you using?</div><div><br></div><div>Greg<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div>
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