[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D39307: Fix global data symbol resolution

[Zachary Turner via lldb-commits]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 4:59 PM Jim Ingham via Phabricator <
reviews at reviews.llvm.org> wrote:

> jingham added a comment.
>
> Note, BTW, we absolutely need some way to say "this symbol from this
> library".  But first of all, if we're going to do this you need to be able
> to mix & match within an expression which you can't do with a flag to
> expr.   Instead you need something like:
>
> (lldb) expr $$MyDylib$my_symbol + $$MyOtherDylib$my_other_symbol
>
> That syntax is ugly, we should try to think of something better.  But the
> main point is this should only be necessary when lldb can't find a unique
> symbol.  When we can no intervention should be required.
>

+1, this is very useful.  The Microsoft syntax for this is here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/context-operator-cpp

Which is pretty nice imo
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