[cfe-dev] Easier debugging with Visual Studio Visualizers

[Douglas Gregor]

On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Nikola Smiljanic wrote:

> Hello everyone, I've spent the last couple of days debugging Clang and peeking inside SmallVector and Token really annoyed me so I decided to write some visualizers to make my life easier. I hope somebody else finds this useful and if you have any ideas about other types that should be supported just ask and I'll try to add them.
> 
> There are two ways to make this work:
> 
> 1. Put the path to clangVisualizer.txt in the environmental variable called _vcee_autoexp and restart your Visual Studio. This method should work for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 and is less invasive.
> 2. Copy everything except the [Visualizer] tag from clangVisualizers.txt to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\autoexp.dat. Make sure you backup your original autoexp.dat first. This should work for Visual Studio 2005 and above.

Cool.

Could you turn these instructions into a patch against

	http://clang.llvm.org/hacking.html#debugging

?

I'd like for this to go into the Clang tree so everyone can get to it, but we need documentation for people to find it.

	- Doug