[cfe-dev] Visual Studio visualizer improvements for Clang

[C Bergström via cfe-dev]

Cool results, but XML - ewwie..
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I digress - What's lldb do in this case?

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:14 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, GDB has a visualizer system in python - I wrote up some visualizers
> for SmallVector, etc, but I couldn't find a way to plug them in for free
> into GDB (everything required some reconfiguration of GDB to point to a
> script directory or the like). I might check them in anyway with a README
> telling people how to set them up if they want to.
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:59 AM, C Bergström <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Looks cool! I'm not a VS guy - how did you achieve this? Was there some
>> source changes in clang or is this a plugin that leverages clang for VS?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Michael Spertus via cfe-dev <
>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Chandler suggested that I socialize the improvements that I have been
>>> making to Clang data structure visualizations in Visual Studio. For
>>> example, these changes replace the traditional incomprehensible
>>> Locals/Watch display of a TemplateArgumentLoc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Now it clearly displays that it is a Type Template Parameter where T
>>> has been replaced by struct A.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I only have a small portion of the Clang data types done so far, but it
>>> is already really helping me keep track of what is going on while debugging
>>> Clang (It’s also been an excellent way for me to learn Clang data
>>> structures J ). I will be continuing to add further visualizations over
>>> the next few weeks and ongoing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope these prove helpful to the community,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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