[cfe-dev] Visual Studio visualizer improvements for Clang

[Aaron Ballman via cfe-dev]

We support the last two major releases of msvc unless there is a really
compelling case to drop support early. So whenever the successor to msvc
2015 comes out is when we plan to drop support for msvc 2013.

~Aaron
On Mar 16, 2016 4:17 PM, "Michael Spertus via cfe-dev" <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Not unlike gdb visualizers, Visual Studio visualizers require some setup:
> You have to put clang.natvis and llvm.natvis in Documents\Visual Studio
> 20xx\Visualizers. However, VS2015 added support for visualizers in a
> project. Once we stop supporting VS2013, we will be able to automagically
> eliminate the manual setup. Is there a timeline for dropping VS2013 support?
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cfe-dev [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Roelofs via cfe-dev
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:21 PM
> To: C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>; David Blaikie <
> dblaikie at gmail.com>
> Cc: cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] Visual Studio visualizer improvements for Clang
>
>
>
> On 3/16/16 11:16 AM, C Bergström via cfe-dev wrote:
> > Cool results, but XML - ewwie..
> > ---------
> > I digress - What's lldb do in this case?
>
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/utils/lldbDataFormatters.py
>
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:14 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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
> >     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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