[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [LLDB] Add unary operators Dereference and AddressOf to DIL (PR #134428)

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@@ -18,6 +18,22 @@
 
 namespace lldb_private::dil {
 
+static lldb::ValueObjectSP
+ArrayToPointerConversion(lldb::ValueObjectSP valobj,
+                         std::shared_ptr<ExecutionContextScope> ctx) {
+  assert(valobj->IsArrayType() &&
+         "an argument to array-to-pointer conversion must be an array");
+
+  uint64_t addr = valobj->GetLoadAddress();
+  llvm::StringRef name = "result";
+  ExecutionContext exe_ctx;
+  ctx->CalculateExecutionContext(exe_ctx);
+  return ValueObject::CreateValueObjectFromAddress(
+      name, addr, exe_ctx,
+      valobj->GetCompilerType().GetArrayElementType(ctx.get()).GetPointerType(),
+      /* do_deref */ false);
+}
+
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jimingham wrote:

Is there any downside to the second option?  It seems to me the general philosophy here is to have DIL do as little as possible and the type system as much as possible, since then we're asking the entity that actually knows what it is doing...

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/134428