d-saoc-2021-13.md (2128B)
1 --- 2 title: 'SAOC LLDB D integration: 13th Weekly Update' 3 date: '2021-12-16T23:34:00+01:00' 4 tags: ['saoc', 'saoc2021', 'dlang', 'llvm', 'lldb', 'debug', 'debugging', 'dwarf'] 5 description: "This post describes what I've done on the 13th week of the 6 Symmetry Autumn of Code 2021, including some bug fixes and trivial patches." 7 --- 8 9 Hi D community! 10 11 I'm here again, to describe what I've done during the thirteenth week of 12 Symmetry Autumn of Code. This week as a bit atypical as I got infected with 13 COVID-19 and this made me feel exhausted both physically and mentally. 14 15 ## Working approach to fetch basic types 16 17 After digging a bit about the problem I found out there is no problem 18 specifically in Release builds, and a simple function called `Verify` is there 19 to double check if the type is correct for Debug builds. After fixing that 20 function, the LLDB can now dump some simple output about global TLS and non-TLS 21 variables: 22 23 ``` 24 (lldb) ta v 25 Global variables for app.d in app: 26 app.bar = <No TLS data currently exists for this thread.> 27 28 app.ptr = <could not resolve type> 29 app.foobar = 30 ``` 31 32 For now it only recognizes boolean types, but it can't show up the value since 33 LLDB doesn't know a way to dump it correctly. 34 35 You can try this version yourself using 36 [this](https://github.com/devtty63/llvm-project/tree/lldb-d/implement-typesystem-d) 37 branch. 38 39 ## Decoupling and trivial patches 40 41 I pushed a patch to decouple DWARF to LLDB encoding logic from Clang DWARF AST 42 Parser, along with a trivial fix about duplicate map assignment: 43 44 - https://reviews.llvm.org/D115662 45 - https://reviews.llvm.org/D115663 46 47 ## What is next? 48 49 I already started working on some helpers to fetch the LLDB Format, Encoding 50 and BasicType, along with other information about a type to properly display 51 them. I'm not sure how Milestone 4 is going to work, as I underestimated 52 the support for custom expessions. 53 54 You can also read this on the D programming language forum, 55 [here](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/avdjlcpavgteneazaebd@forum.dlang.org), 56 and discuss there! 57 58 Read about the [previous week](../d-saoc-2021-12/) and the [next 59 week](../d-saoc-2021-14/).