[lldb-dev] Interactive commands in LLDB

[Greg Clayton]

This actually sounds like a great command to add as a python command. You could add it to the lldb/examples/python directory. I don't think it is something we want as a permanent command.

> On Feb 26, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Siva Chandra <sivachandra at google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:06 AM,  <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
>> I'd say it another way.  Instead of spending the time on this explore
>> command, which requires you to re-do the labor every time you want
>> to inspect data of that type, produce a rough equivalent but whose
>> job is to interactively produce a synthetic child provider for a particular
>> data type.  These aren't hard to write, but you have to know Python &
>> the SB API's so there a bit of a barrier to using them.  If there was a
>> way to say: if A is 5, then view these three fields, if 6 view these other
>> three, etc, I think that would be pretty neat.
> 
> While I personally disagree* with this, I will stop here.
> 
> * There are many reasons. One of them is that, one could be dealing
> with moving targets. Hence, moving the data formatter along with the
> targets is double the work. Another reason is, if I were a library
> dev, an "explore" command is provided by my tool chain and can be used
> even before the data formatters are written for my data structures.
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