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Author SHA1 Message Date
Vedant Kumar
e30c5b249d [Debugger] Teach the testing transform about assignments to members (#16222)
This teaches the debugger testing transform how to instrument
assignments to class members.
2018-04-27 14:38:41 -07:00
Vedant Kumar
ca27e829ba Add a transform to help test lldb expression evaluation
The initial version of the debugger testing transform instruments
assignments in a way that allows the debugger to sanity-check its
expression evaluator.

Given an assignment expression of the form:

```
  a = b
```

The transform rewrites the relevant bits of the AST to look like this:

```
  { () -> () in
    a = b
    checkExpect("a", stringForPrintObject(a))
  }()
```

The purpose of the rewrite is to make it easier to exercise the
debugger's expression evaluator in new contexts. This can be automated
by having the debugger set a breakpoint on checkExpect, running `expr
$Varname`, and comparing the result to the expected value generated by
the runtime.

While the initial version of this testing transform only supports
instrumenting assignments, it should be simple to teach it to do more
interesting rewrites.

There's a driver script available in SWIFT_BIN_DIR/lldb-check-expect to
simplfiy the process of launching and testing instrumented programs.

rdar://36032055
2018-03-30 16:50:31 -07:00