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        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/77212>77212</a>
        </td>
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    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [lldb]: set variable formatting for a watchpoint 
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    </tr>

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      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            new issue
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      <th>Assignees</th>
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    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          tgross35
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    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    When printing variables, it is easy to set a formatter such as `/c` to add character formatting:

```lldb
(lldb) p/c lexer->lookahead
(int32_t) e\0\0\0
```

To my knowledge, there is no way to set this for watchpoints. Ideally something like this would work:

```lldb
wa s v/c lexer->lookahead
```
</pre>
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