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<title>[lldb] Use std::make_shared where possible (NFC) (#150714)</title>
<updated>2025-07-25T22:55:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Devlieghere</name>
<email>jonas@devlieghere.com</email>
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<published>2025-07-25T22:55:21+00:00</published>
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This is a continuation of 68fd102, which did the same thing but only for
StopInfo. Using make_shared is both safer and more efficient:

- With make_shared, the object and the control block are allocated
  together, which is more efficient.
- With make_shared, the enable_shared_from_this base class is properly
  linked to the control block before the constructor finishes, so
  shared_from_this() will be safe to use (though still not recommended
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This is a continuation of 68fd102, which did the same thing but only for
StopInfo. Using make_shared is both safer and more efficient:

- With make_shared, the object and the control block are allocated
  together, which is more efficient.
- With make_shared, the enable_shared_from_this base class is properly
  linked to the control block before the constructor finishes, so
  shared_from_this() will be safe to use (though still not recommended
  during construction).</pre>
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<title>[lldb] Refactor away UB in SBValue::GetLoadAddress (#141799)</title>
<updated>2025-06-02T07:39:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Labath</name>
<email>pavel@labath.sk</email>
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<published>2025-06-02T07:39:56+00:00</published>
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The problem was in calling GetLoadAddress on a value in the error state,
where `ValueObject::GetLoadAddress` could end up accessing the
uninitialized "address type" by-ref return value from `GetAddressOf`.
This probably happened because each function expected the other to
initialize it.

We can guarantee initialization by turning this into a proper return
value.

I've added a test, but it only (reliably) crashes if lldb is built with
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The problem was in calling GetLoadAddress on a value in the error state,
where `ValueObject::GetLoadAddress` could end up accessing the
uninitialized "address type" by-ref return value from `GetAddressOf`.
This probably happened because each function expected the other to
initialize it.

We can guarantee initialization by turning this into a proper return
value.

I've added a test, but it only (reliably) crashes if lldb is built with
ubsan.</pre>
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<title>[lldb] Retcon SBValue::GetChildAtIndex(synthetic=true) (#140065)</title>
<updated>2025-05-20T05:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Labath</name>
<email>pavel@labath.sk</email>
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<published>2025-05-20T05:44:58+00:00</published>
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The motivation here is being (un)able to treat pointer values as an
array consistently. This works for pointers to simple/scalar values, but
for aggregates, we get a very surprising result:
- GetChildAtIndex(x, ??, true) returns the `x` child of the zeroth array
member (the one you get by dereferencing the pointer/array) for all `x`
which are smaller than the number of children of that value.
- for other values of `x`, we get `v[x]`, where `v` is treated like a
(C) pointer

This patch reimagines this interface so that the value of `true` always
treats (pointer and array) values as pointers. For `false`, we always
dereference pointers, while in the case of arrays, we only return the
values as far as the array bounds will allow.

This has the potential to break existing code, but I have a suspicion
that code was already broken to begin with, which is why I think this
would be better than introducing a new API and keeping the old (and
surprising) behavior. If our own test coverage is any indication,
breakage should be minimal.</content>
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The motivation here is being (un)able to treat pointer values as an
array consistently. This works for pointers to simple/scalar values, but
for aggregates, we get a very surprising result:
- GetChildAtIndex(x, ??, true) returns the `x` child of the zeroth array
member (the one you get by dereferencing the pointer/array) for all `x`
which are smaller than the number of children of that value.
- for other values of `x`, we get `v[x]`, where `v` is treated like a
(C) pointer

This patch reimagines this interface so that the value of `true` always
treats (pointer and array) values as pointers. For `false`, we always
dereference pointers, while in the case of arrays, we only return the
values as far as the array bounds will allow.

This has the potential to break existing code, but I have a suspicion
that code was already broken to begin with, which is why I think this
would be better than introducing a new API and keeping the old (and
surprising) behavior. If our own test coverage is any indication,
breakage should be minimal.</pre>
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<title>[lldb] Upgrade `GetIndexOfChildWithName` to use `llvm::Expected` (#136693)</title>
<updated>2025-04-30T10:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charles Zablit</name>
<email>c_zablit@apple.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-30T10:44:19+00:00</published>
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This patch replaces the use of `UINT32_MAX` as the error return value of
`GetIndexOfChildWithName` with `llvm::Expected`.


# Tasks to do in another PR

1. Replace `CalculateNumChildrenIgnoringErrors` with
`CalculateNumChildren`. See [this
comment](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136693#discussion_r2056319358).
2. Update `lldb_private::formatters::ExtractIndexFromString` to use
`llvm::Expected`. See [this
comment](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136693#discussion_r2054217536).
3. Create a new class which carries both user and internal errors. See
[this
comment](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136693#discussion_r2056439608).</content>
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This patch replaces the use of `UINT32_MAX` as the error return value of
`GetIndexOfChildWithName` with `llvm::Expected`.


# Tasks to do in another PR

1. Replace `CalculateNumChildrenIgnoringErrors` with
`CalculateNumChildren`. See [this
comment](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136693#discussion_r2056319358).
2. Update `lldb_private::formatters::ExtractIndexFromString` to use
`llvm::Expected`. See [this
comment](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136693#discussion_r2054217536).
3. Create a new class which carries both user and internal errors. See
[this
comment](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136693#discussion_r2056439608).</pre>
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<title>[lldb] Upgrade CompilerType::GetBitSize to return llvm::Expected  (#129601)</title>
<updated>2025-03-05T18:21:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Prantl</name>
<email>aprantl@apple.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-05T18:21:19+00:00</published>
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This patch pushes the error handling boundary for the GetBitSize()
methods from Runtime into the Type and CompilerType APIs. This makes it
easier to diagnose problems thanks to more meaningful error messages
being available. GetBitSize() is often the first thing LLDB asks about a
type, so this method is particularly important for a better user
experience.

rdar://145667239</content>
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This patch pushes the error handling boundary for the GetBitSize()
methods from Runtime into the Type and CompilerType APIs. This makes it
easier to diagnose problems thanks to more meaningful error messages
being available. GetBitSize() is often the first thing LLDB asks about a
type, so this method is particularly important for a better user
experience.

rdar://145667239</pre>
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<title>[lldb] Fix a regression in SBValue::GetObjectDescription()  (#117242)</title>
<updated>2024-11-21T23:38:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Prantl</name>
<email>aprantl@apple.com</email>
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<published>2024-11-21T23:38:49+00:00</published>
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The old behavior was to return a null string in the error case,when
refactoring the error handling I thought it would be a good idea to
print the error in the description, but that breaks clients that try to
print a description first and then do something else in the error case.
The API is not great but it's clear that in-band errors are also not a
good idea.

rdar://133956263</content>
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The old behavior was to return a null string in the error case,when
refactoring the error handling I thought it would be a good idea to
print the error in the description, but that breaks clients that try to
print a description first and then do something else in the error case.
The API is not great but it's clear that in-band errors are also not a
good idea.

rdar://133956263</pre>
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<title>[lldb] Move ValueObject into its own library (NFC) (#113393)</title>
<updated>2024-10-25T03:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Devlieghere</name>
<email>jonas@devlieghere.com</email>
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<published>2024-10-25T03:20:48+00:00</published>
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ValueObject is part of lldbCore for historical reasons, but conceptually
it deserves to be its own library. This does introduce a (link-time) circular
dependency between lldbCore and lldbValueObject, which is unfortunate
but probably unavoidable because so many things in LLDB rely on
ValueObject. We already have cycles and these libraries are never built
as dylibs so while this doesn't improve the situation, it also doesn't
make things worse.

The header includes were updated with the following command:

```
find . -type f -exec sed -i.bak "s%include \"lldb/Core/ValueObject%include \"lldb/ValueObject/ValueObject%" '{}' \;
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ValueObject is part of lldbCore for historical reasons, but conceptually
it deserves to be its own library. This does introduce a (link-time) circular
dependency between lldbCore and lldbValueObject, which is unfortunate
but probably unavoidable because so many things in LLDB rely on
ValueObject. We already have cycles and these libraries are never built
as dylibs so while this doesn't improve the situation, it also doesn't
make things worse.

The header includes were updated with the following command:

```
find . -type f -exec sed -i.bak "s%include \"lldb/Core/ValueObject%include \"lldb/ValueObject/ValueObject%" '{}' \;
```</pre>
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<title>Avoid expression evaluation in libStdC++ std::vector&lt;bool&gt; synthetic children provider  (#108414)</title>
<updated>2024-09-13T17:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>jeffreytan81</name>
<email>jeffreytan@meta.com</email>
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<published>2024-09-13T17:26:01+00:00</published>
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Our customers is reporting a serious performance issue (expanding a this
pointer takes 70 seconds in VSCode) in a specific execution context.

Profiling shows the hot path is triggered by an expression evaluation
from libStdC++ synthetic children provider for `std::vector&lt;bool&gt;` since
it uses `CreateValueFromExpression()`.

This PR added a new `SBValue::CreateBoolValue()` API and switch
`std::vector&lt;bool&gt;` synthetic children provider to use the new API
without performing expression evaluation.

Note: there might be other cases of `CreateValueFromExpression()` in our
summary/synthetic children providers which I will sweep through in later
PRs.

With this PR, the customer's scenario reduces from 70 seconds =&gt; 50
seconds. I will add other PRs to further optimize the remaining 50
seconds (mostly from type/namespace lookup).

Testing:

`test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/libstdcpp/vbool/TestDataFormatterStdVBool.py`
passes with the PR

---------

Co-authored-by: jeffreytan81 &lt;jeffreytan@fb.com&gt;</content>
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Our customers is reporting a serious performance issue (expanding a this
pointer takes 70 seconds in VSCode) in a specific execution context.

Profiling shows the hot path is triggered by an expression evaluation
from libStdC++ synthetic children provider for `std::vector&lt;bool&gt;` since
it uses `CreateValueFromExpression()`.

This PR added a new `SBValue::CreateBoolValue()` API and switch
`std::vector&lt;bool&gt;` synthetic children provider to use the new API
without performing expression evaluation.

Note: there might be other cases of `CreateValueFromExpression()` in our
summary/synthetic children providers which I will sweep through in later
PRs.

With this PR, the customer's scenario reduces from 70 seconds =&gt; 50
seconds. I will add other PRs to further optimize the remaining 50
seconds (mostly from type/namespace lookup).

Testing:

`test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/libstdcpp/vbool/TestDataFormatterStdVBool.py`
passes with the PR

---------

Co-authored-by: jeffreytan81 &lt;jeffreytan@fb.com&gt;</pre>
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<title>[lldb] Make deep copies of Status explicit (NFC) (#107170)</title>
<updated>2024-09-05T19:44:13+00:00</updated>
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<name>Adrian Prantl</name>
<email>aprantl@apple.com</email>
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<published>2024-09-05T19:44:13+00:00</published>
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<title>[lldb] Turn lldb_private::Status into a value type. (#106163)</title>
<updated>2024-08-27T17:59:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Prantl</name>
<email>aprantl@apple.com</email>
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<published>2024-08-27T17:59:31+00:00</published>
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This patch removes all of the Set.* methods from Status.

This cleanup is part of a series of patches that make it harder use the
anti-pattern of keeping a long-lives Status object around and updating
it while dropping any errors it contains on the floor.

This patch is largely NFC, the more interesting next steps this enables
is to:
1. remove Status.Clear()
2. assert that Status::operator=() never overwrites an error
3. remove Status::operator=()

Note that step (2) will bring 90% of the benefits for users, and step
(3) will dramatically clean up the error handling code in various
places. In the end my goal is to convert all APIs that are of the form

`    ResultTy DoFoo(Status&amp; error)
`
to

`    llvm::Expected&lt;ResultTy&gt; DoFoo()
`
How to read this patch?

The interesting changes are in Status.h and Status.cpp, all other
changes are mostly

` perl -pi -e 's/\.SetErrorString/ = Status::FromErrorString/g' $(git
grep -l SetErrorString lldb/source)
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This patch removes all of the Set.* methods from Status.

This cleanup is part of a series of patches that make it harder use the
anti-pattern of keeping a long-lives Status object around and updating
it while dropping any errors it contains on the floor.

This patch is largely NFC, the more interesting next steps this enables
is to:
1. remove Status.Clear()
2. assert that Status::operator=() never overwrites an error
3. remove Status::operator=()

Note that step (2) will bring 90% of the benefits for users, and step
(3) will dramatically clean up the error handling code in various
places. In the end my goal is to convert all APIs that are of the form

`    ResultTy DoFoo(Status&amp; error)
`
to

`    llvm::Expected&lt;ResultTy&gt; DoFoo()
`
How to read this patch?

The interesting changes are in Status.h and Status.cpp, all other
changes are mostly

` perl -pi -e 's/\.SetErrorString/ = Status::FromErrorString/g' $(git
grep -l SetErrorString lldb/source)
`
plus the occasional manual cleanup.</pre>
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