microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Please consider shipping debugger visualizers for libstdc++/libc++
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Description
Type: Debugger
Visual Studio does it already, it ships linux.natvis which supports libstd++ and libc++ at the same time. But cpptools doesn't, so hovering mouse cursor on STL containers doesn't get visualized out-of-the-box on Linux and Mac OS X. I think this part should work out of the box (with cppdbg).
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Research direction
The issue points to cppdbg and Visual Studio's linux.natvis as references; start by examining how those visualizers support libstdc++ and libc++ together. Done means STL containers are visualized out of the box on Linux and macOS for both standard libraries.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, vscode
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100