[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb][progress][NFC] Add groundwork to keep track of progress reports (PR #81026)

[Greg Clayton via lldb-commits]

clayborg wrote:

> The discussions happening here are talking about 2 major things, how to do the bookkeeping of the map that keeps track of progress reports and where to do that bookkeeping. I think it makes sense to split up this work into smaller patches as such:
> 
> 1. Since it's best to do the bookkeeping using the `Debugger::eBroadcastBitProgressByCategory` bit, I'll add this bit to `Debugger` and `SBDebugger` in its own patch.
> 2. Add a class to manage the map that holds progress reports.
> 3. Once that class and the bit are added, use it to perform operations on the map of progress reports and use the new bit to actual broadcast operations.
> 
> I'll put up a patch to add the bit now and start work on parts 2 and 3. I'm also going to close this PR since the work is now being split up.

Sounds great. Thanks for putting in the work on this!

Also, I do have the PR that adds settings and throttles progress events, do we still want that patch? I do believe that will improve our progress events and keep them from overwhelming clients. 

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/81026