[PATCH] D46588: [LLDB][lldb-mi] Add possibility to set breakpoints without selecting a target.

[Adrian Prantl via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

aprantl added a comment.

>   The advantage of the second one is that we will have the ability to inject commands which depend on the results of previous commands (something that I think we will need, sooner or later).

That is worth considering. To write good tests that depend on previous results, we probably want to have SBAPI-like Python scripting for lldb-mi available. To make that work we would need to introduce an lldbmi.HandleCommand("-mycmd...") interface that runs one command, blocks on it, and returns the output in a string. And then we would need to export that to Python. Since the interface is string-in-string-out, we could probably do it via C without even involving SWIG. As an escape hatch to access features outside of the mi command set, we could implement the -interpreter-exec mi command that passes its input to SBAPI's HandleCommand() if need be.
Alternatively we could use gtest to write unittest-style lldb-mi tests directly in C++, if going via Python is too messy. Again, we would do that in a blocking or synchronized I/O mode.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D46588