[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D145276: [lldb] Let 'v' command directly access ivars of _any_ self/this

[Dave Lee via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

kastiglione added inline comments.


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Comment at: lldb/source/Plugins/TypeSystem/Clang/TypeSystemClang.cpp:9818
+    if (ClangASTMetadata *metadata = GetMetadata(fun_decl))
+      return metadata->GetObjectPtrLanguage();
+  }
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aprantl wrote:
> Couple of questions for my understanding:
> 
> 1. Do you see any opportunities for this to spectacularly do the wrong thing in an ObjectiveC++ program by guessing the wrong language? I suppose this just tries to do a best effort?
> 
> 2. We're not using the DW_AT_APPLE_runtime_language attribute because it's only attached to Objective-C classes?
> 
> 3. We're not using the DW_AT_language of the DW_TAG_compile_unit because it won't help us in an ObjC++ program?
> We're not using the `DW_AT_APPLE_runtime_language` attribute because it's only attached to Objective-C classes?
> We're not using the `DW_AT_language` of the `DW_TAG_compile_unit` because it won't help us in an ObjC++ program?

I am not sure how to answer these too. While this function is new, the logic and this code path which calls `GetObjectPtrLanguage`, is taken from the existing implementation. In other words, how the debug info is made use of, hasn't changed.


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