[lldb-dev] clangfunction & type aliases/custom types

[Carlo Kok]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:06:40 +0200, Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com>  
wrote:

> If you have no debug info, you will only get symbols. You won't have  
> types if you don't have debug info either. There is some support for  
> getting objc types from the runtime, but you won't be able to request  
> any SBType values from any SBModule or SBTarget objects if you don't  
> have debug info. I know the expression parse does some extra stuff to be  
> able to play with objc types, so you might have to run an expression in  
> order to be able to extract the type from the result.
>
> value = lldb.frame.EvaluateExpression("NSString *a = nil; a")
>
> Then you can get the type using:
>
> t = value.GetType()

Yeah actually that's the problem. It's completely aware of NSString and  
other types, I can even get the Canonical type if it's a typedef, it's  
just that the parser inside ClangFunction is unaware of these types. so I  
can get an SBType just fine.


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Carlo Kok
RemObjects Software