However, they also contain fallback logic that - in cases where LLDB can't recognize the specific subclass - actually does run code in order to inspect those objects.
The argument for this logic was that these data types are critical enough that the risk of getting it wrong is outweighed by the advantage of always providing accurate child information.
Practical experience however shows that "po" - a code running data-inspection command - is quite frequently used, and not considered burdensome by users.
As such, this makes the code-running fallback in the data formatters a risk that carries very little actual reward. Also, unlike the time this code was originally written, we now have accurate class information for Objective-C, and thus we are less likely to improperly identify classes.
This commit removes support for the code-running fallback, and aligns the data formatters for NSArray, NSDictionary and NSSet to the general no-code-running behavior of other data formatters.
While it is possible for us to add support for some subclasses that are now no longer covered by static inspection alone, this is beyond the scope of this commit.
llvm-svn: 260664
Introduce the notion of Language-based formatter prefix/suffix
This is meant for languages that share certain data types but present them in syntatically different ways, such that LLDB can now have language-based awareness of which of the syntax variations it has to present to the user when formatting those values
This is goodness for new languages and interoperability, but is NFC for existing languages. As such, existing tests cover this
llvm-svn: 249587
This is meant to support languages that can do some sort of bridging from<-->to these ObjC types via types that statically vend themselves as Cocoa types, but dynamically have an implementation that does not match any of our well-known types, but where an introspecting formatter can be vended by the bridged language
llvm-svn: 249185
Enrico Granata