[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb][DataFormatter] Allow std::string formatters to match against custom allocators (PR #156050)

Michael Buch via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Aug 29 09:02:31 PDT 2025


https://github.com/Michael137 created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/156050

This came up in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/155691.

For `std::basic_string` our formatter matching logic required the allocator template parameter to be a `std::allocator`. There is no compelling reason (that I know of) why this would be required for us to apply the existing formatter to the string. We don't check the `allocator` parameter for other STL containers either. This meant that `std::string` that used custom allocators wouldn't be formatted. This patch relaxes the regex for `basic_string`.

>From 88ec3584771c311a7785c086c6754a92876a189f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Buch <michaelbuch12 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:57:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [lldb][DataFormatter] Allow std::string formatters to match
 against custom allocators

This came up in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/155691.

For `std::basic_string` our formatter matching logic required the
allocator template parameter to be a `std::allocator`. There is no
compelling reason (that I know of) why this would be required for us to
apply the existing formatter to the string. We don't check the
`allocator` parameter for other STL containers either. This meant that
`std::string` that used custom allocators wouldn't be formatted. This
patch relaxes the regex for `basic_string`.
---
 .../Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp  | 15 ++++------
 .../string/TestDataFormatterStdString.py      |  6 ++++
 .../generic/string/main.cpp                   | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp
index b4207439f5285..ec89212ab63fc 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp
@@ -849,31 +849,27 @@ static void LoadLibCxxFormatters(lldb::TypeCategoryImplSP cpp_category_sp) {
                 lldb_private::formatters::LibcxxStringSummaryProviderASCII,
                 "std::string summary provider",
                 "^std::__[[:alnum:]]+::basic_string<char, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<char>, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::allocator<char> >$",
+                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<char>,.*>$",
                 stl_summary_flags, true);
   AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp,
                 lldb_private::formatters::LibcxxStringSummaryProviderASCII,
                 "std::string summary provider",
                 "^std::__[[:alnum:]]+::basic_string<unsigned char, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<unsigned char>, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::allocator<unsigned char> >$",
+                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<unsigned char>,.*>$",
                 stl_summary_flags, true);
 
   AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp,
                 lldb_private::formatters::LibcxxStringSummaryProviderUTF16,
                 "std::u16string summary provider",
                 "^std::__[[:alnum:]]+::basic_string<char16_t, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<char16_t>, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::allocator<char16_t> >$",
+                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<char16_t>,.*>$",
                 stl_summary_flags, true);
 
   AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp,
                 lldb_private::formatters::LibcxxStringSummaryProviderUTF32,
                 "std::u32string summary provider",
                 "^std::__[[:alnum:]]+::basic_string<char32_t, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<char32_t>, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::allocator<char32_t> >$",
+                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<char32_t>,.*>$",
                 stl_summary_flags, true);
 
   AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp,
@@ -884,8 +880,7 @@ static void LoadLibCxxFormatters(lldb::TypeCategoryImplSP cpp_category_sp) {
                 lldb_private::formatters::LibcxxWStringSummaryProvider,
                 "std::wstring summary provider",
                 "^std::__[[:alnum:]]+::basic_string<wchar_t, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<wchar_t>, "
-                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::allocator<wchar_t> >$",
+                "std::__[[:alnum:]]+::char_traits<wchar_t>,.*>$",
                 stl_summary_flags, true);
 
   AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp,
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/TestDataFormatterStdString.py b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/TestDataFormatterStdString.py
index fec20bae997ef..6a27b5d2f0780 100644
--- a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/TestDataFormatterStdString.py
+++ b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/TestDataFormatterStdString.py
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ def cleanup():
                 '(%s::string) Q = "quite a long std::strin with lots of info inside it"'
                 % ns,
                 "(%s::string *) null_str = nullptr" % ns,
+                '(CustomString) custom_str = "hello!"',
+                '(CustomWString) custom_wstr = L"hello!"',
             ],
         )
 
@@ -143,6 +145,10 @@ def do_test_multibyte(self):
                 '(%s::u16string) u16_empty = u""' % ns,
                 '(%s::u32string) u32_string = U"🍄🍅🍆🍌"' % ns,
                 '(%s::u32string) u32_empty = U""' % ns,
+                '(CustomStringU16) custom_u16 = u"ß水氶"',
+                '(CustomStringU16) custom_u16_empty = u""',
+                '(CustomStringU32) custom_u32 = U"🍄🍅🍆🍌"',
+                '(CustomStringU32) custom_u32_empty = U""',
             ],
         )
 
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/main.cpp b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/main.cpp
index f22c890861d01..55f2de131b402 100644
--- a/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/main.cpp
+++ b/lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/generic/string/main.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <string>
 
+template <typename T> struct CustomAlloc {
+  using value_type = T;
+  using pointer = value_type *;
+  using const_pointer = const value_type *;
+  using size_type = std::size_t;
+
+  pointer allocate(size_type) { return new T; }
+
+  void deallocate(pointer p, size_type) { delete p; }
+};
+
+using CustomString =
+    std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, CustomAlloc<char>>;
+
+using CustomWString =
+    std::basic_string<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>, CustomAlloc<wchar_t>>;
+
+using CustomStringU16 = std::basic_string<char16_t, std::char_traits<char16_t>,
+                                          CustomAlloc<char16_t>>;
+
+using CustomStringU32 = std::basic_string<char32_t, std::char_traits<char32_t>,
+                                          CustomAlloc<char32_t>>;
+
 size_t touch_string(std::string &in_str) {
   return in_str.size(); // Break here to look at bad string
 }
@@ -99,6 +122,13 @@ int main() {
   std::string *pq = &q;
   std::string *pQ = &Q;
 
+  CustomString custom_str("hello!");
+  CustomWString custom_wstr(L"hello!");
+  CustomStringU16 custom_u16(u16_string);
+  CustomStringU16 custom_u16_empty(u"");
+  CustomStringU32 custom_u32(u32_string);
+  CustomStringU32 custom_u32_empty(U"");
+
   S.assign(L"!!!!!"); // Set break point at this line.
   std::string *not_a_string = (std::string *)0x0;
   touch_string(*not_a_string);



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