clayborg added a comment. In https://reviews.llvm.org/D50365#1241149, @lemo wrote:
> Hi Greg, looking at request_evaluate() I noticed that it will evaluate the > string as a lldb command if prefixed by ` . > > This is a great feature (it allows building REPL consoles on top of DAP), but > I'm curious how you picked up this convention? For example I believe that the > gdb DAP uses -exec 'command' instead. ` is an illegal expression character so it won't stop you from evaluating any possible expression. The gdb prefix "-exec" stops you from being able to negate a local variable named "exec". Not a huge deal. So I just picked a good prefix character that wouldn't stop anyone from evaluating any valid expression (at least in C/C++/ObjC/Swift). The solution I would love to see is to have the initialize packet return something via the DAP that says "I have a command line interpreter, please send a packet with a file handle (slave path to slave side of pseudo terminal maybe)". VS Code and Nuclide both emulated tty already, so we could have a true command line that exposes the "(gdb)" prompt for GDB and "(lldb)" for lldb and all the power that comes with it. I needed something that could run LLDB commands when things go wrong to do trouble shooting (enable logging, run commands to dump vital information) so I hacked it in with ` Repository: rL LLVM https://reviews.llvm.org/D50365 _______________________________________________ lldb-commits mailing list lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits
