================ @@ -0,0 +1,436 @@ +Data Formatters +=============== + +This page is an introduction to the design of the LLDB data formatters +subsystem. The intended target audience are people interested in understanding +or modifying the formatters themselves rather than writing a specific data +formatter. For this latter purpose, the user documentation about formatters is +the main relevant document which one should refer to. + +This page also highlights some open areas for improvement to the general +subsystem, and more evolutions not anticipated here are certainly possible. + +Overview +-------- + +The LLDB data formatters subsystem is used to allow the debugger as well as the +end-users to customize the way their variables look upon inspection in the user +interface (be it the command line tool, or one of the several GUIs that are +backed by LLDB) + +To this aim, they are hooked into the ValueObjects model, in order to provide +entry points through which such customization questions can be answered. For +example what format should this number be printed as? How many child elements ---------------- walter-erquinigo wrote:
```suggestion example: What format should this number be printed as? How many child elements ``` https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/66527 _______________________________________________ lldb-commits mailing list lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits
