Hi Carlo, We had written some stuff for invoking a function from an expression without using JIT. It has not been committed yet. Here’s the review, http://reviews.llvm.org/D4672 .
This has not been fixed up yet properly, as it has to be refactored to be derived from ThreadPlanCallFunction. Posting it here in case you would like to take a look. Thanks, Deepak On 19 Sep 2014, at 23:16, Greg Clayton <gclay...@apple.com> wrote: > I just spoke with Jim Ingham and he change my mind. If, every time you stop, > you want to call a function, this feature could come in handy. > > Behind the curtains it should: > - install a ClangFunction down in the host and leave it there so it can be > called (we do this internally with a few functions) > - allow it to be called with a SBValueList. All arguments will need to > manually be supplied (the "this", and ObjC "cmd" and "selector" arguments, > etc) > - it should be able to be uninstalled from the target > > >> On Sep 19, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Greg Clayton <gclay...@apple.com> wrote: >> >> I would really rather us (LLDB) not get into the the function argument >> passing game and leave that to the pros (clang) and just use the expression >> parser which does all this for us correctly. >> >>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Carlo Kok <c...@remobjects.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:06:35 +0200, <jing...@apple.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I think it would make more sense to have this be something that hangs off >>>> of SBFunction, and have the implementation opaque to the SB API's. To do >>>> that' you're probably going to have to stash the ClangFunction away in the >>>> lldb_private::Function, since you can't change the size of SBFunction >>>> (another of our API promises...) and it is just one pointer big, so >>>> life-time would be hard to manage. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> yeah, I'll try to look into this next week. >>> >>> For ObjC I'd probably have to cast the right >>> msgsend/msgsend_stret/msgsnd_fpret to a function type matching the sig of >>> the member function, get the right selector and cache/invoke that, or is >>> there a shorter way about this? >>> >>> -- >>> Carlo Kok >>> RemObjects Software >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lldb-dev mailing list >>> lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu >>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lldb-dev mailing list >> lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu >> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev > > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
