Hello, I recently landed a patch[1] that added a Gecko.natvis file[2] to the tree. natvis files[3] are Microsoft's current way of providing nicer views of data types for their debuggers. The file as-landed was written by Vlad a few years ago so it could definitely use some changes (there's a followup bug[4] for that work). If you debug Firefox in MSVC regularly and there are Gecko data types that you find annoying to inspect you should take a look, and submit fixes for things it doesn't already cover! There's also a followup bug[5] to embed the natvis files that the Rust compiler ships so we can get nicer views of data types from the Rust standard library.
And in case you're wondering--there are already GDB pretty-printers for Gecko types in the tree[6][7], feel free to use and improve those as well! -Ted 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408502 2. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/856384fbc255/toolkit/library/gecko.natvis 3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/create-custom-views-of-native-objects 4. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459989 5. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459991 6. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/.gdbinit 7. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/third_party/python/gdbpp/gdbpp _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
