[lldb-dev] SBValue::GetName returns wrong result?

[Alexander Polyakov via lldb-dev]

I have an address of memory where the value of some register is. I do
following:

addr = 0x1234 (just for example)
rbx = target.CreateValueFromExpression('(uint32_t *) ' + str(addr), 'rbx')
rbx = rbx.Dereference()

Then I want to create a map:
rbx.GetName() => rbx.GetValue()

In this case rbx.GetName() will return "*rbx".

Maybe it'd be better to use SBTarget::CreateValueFromAddress() instead of
CreateValueFromExpression. The Value created this way will be dereferenced
initially, so its name will not contain *, I guess.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:23 AM Jim Ingham <jingham at apple.com> wrote:

> What are you using the name for?  If the name of an SBValue is the name of
> a variable, then it makes sense (at least in C languages) for the name of
> the dereference Value to be "*VARNAME".  After all that's what it is.  If
> the name is some other random string, I'm not sure anything would be better
> or worse, except it would be confusing to dereference an SBValue and get
> back another value with the same name, so we have to choose something else.
>
> Jim
>
> > On Apr 1, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Alexander Polyakov <polyakov.alx at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I can't say that it's a problem, I just want to know what is the actual
> reason of such a behavior to find good workaround.
> >
> > I have a SBValue with a pointer to some object, e.g. "(uint32_t *) sp",
> when I do dereference it, I get another SBValue - "(uint32_t) *sp". The
> only way to deal with it that I see is to check the first symbol of name
> and erase it if it's equal to *.
> >
> > I'm facing with that situation when creating an object from a pointer
> via SBTarget::CreateValueFromExpression.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 9:35 PM Jim Ingham <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
> > Dereference returns another SBValue distinct from the initial one, so it
> needs to make up a name for it.  I think it would be confusing for it to
> return the same name, and putting a * at the beginning of the initial
> SBValue seems as good a choice as any.
> >
> > Is this causing you some concrete problem?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 30, 2019, at 11:18 AM, Alexander Polyakov via lldb-dev <
> lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi lldb-dev,
> > >
> > > I have a SBValue created via
> SBTarget.CreateValueFromExpression('some_name', expr).
> > > If the expression looks like '(some_type *) addr', then GetName
> returns 'some_name' as expected, but when I do Dereference this value,
> GetName returns '*some_name'.
> > >
> > > So, is it a conventional behavior of the GetName method applied to
> dereferenced SBValue?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Alexander
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Alexander
>
>

-- 
Alexander
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