[lldb-dev] LLDB Evolution

[Chris Lattner via lldb-dev]

> On Aug 11, 2016, at 7:41 AM, Pavel Labath <labath at google.com> wrote:
> 
> I just committed another  header cleanup commit, which makes lldb
> clang-format-immune ( = it still compiles after a full reformat) on
> linux. Other OS's are still likely to have some missed dependencies.

Nice!

> However, when I tried running the test suite I got about 150 failures.
> Based on a sample of the errors, it looks like the problem is that
> clang format messes up the "// Place breakpoint here" annotations we
> use in the tests.
> Therefore, I propose to apply the clang-format to the lldb source code
> only as a first step. After that, as a second step, we can go through
> the tests and fix them up so that the comment markers are where we
> expect them to be.

Personally, I think that reformatting is most valuable for the debugger code itself.  The testsuite following standards seems like a separable issue, and much lower priority.

-Chris