[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb] Add support for updating string during debug process (PR #67782)

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jimingham wrote:

I don't know what the status of lldb-mi is, but lldb-vscode which does the same job (be a DAP server) is under active development.  So "this adaptor doesn't use the better method to do X" shouldn't be a reason to not employ the better method.  We should just fix the adaptors.

I entertained the idea of "value setting summaries" but rejected it after some thought.  Summaries are unstructured short developer notes about the value, they really aren't suitable as general stand-in's for the value.  So that's really not an appropriate route for changing values.  But the Synthetic Child Providers are a re-presentation of the value, so they are a suitable route to do value changing for more complex object types.

I haven't read carefully through the ValueObject printer in a while, but we do compress the printing of "small" structures in some cases, so it should be possible to get it not to expand this output.  I think people will not see it as a positive if these common objects start taking more space, so it would be good to investigate how to do that.



https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/67782