[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D28519: Add format_provider for the Error class

[Zachary Turner via lldb-commits]

Official Lgtm
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:48 AM Pavel Labath via Phabricator <
reviews at reviews.llvm.org> wrote:

> labath added a comment.
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> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D28519#641938, @clayborg wrote:
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> > You can't add anything extra to the AsCString() since it returns a
> "const char *". You can't return a StringRef because it isn't backed by
> anything. You could return a std::string.
> >
> > My vote would be to leave AsCString() alone and have it just return a
> pointer to the string buffer that it owns, and let the formatv stuff do the
> extra formatting.
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> The way I would add it is to add whatever text we want directly to the
> m_string variable that backs the returned `const char *`. Basically, I
> believe that if a function has a "natural" string conversion function
> (which `AsCString` is) then the **default** formatv conversion should be
> just that (obviously the formatv conversion can do other fancy stuff with
> the format modifiers, but that's another story).
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> I believe we have converged to keeping this patch as is. If I don't hear
> any comments, I am going to land this tomorrow.
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> https://reviews.llvm.org/D28519
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