microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Suggestion on Pretty-printer With Pointer Indirection
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Description
Type: Debugger
Describe the bug
- OS and Version: WSL Ubuntu 18.04
- VS Code Version: 1.44
- C/C++ Extension Version: 0.27.0
This is a feature request. In current version of cpptool, we may utilizing pretty-printer to effectively look at the content of STL structures. However, this mechanism fails as soon as you wrap it with a pointer indirection as shown above.
May we add a feature so that we could find if an underlying type of a pointer could be printed in a better format? Also, if that involves a large amount of work, could we add a menu item Watch Pointee so that we could quickly add "*p" of any pointer-like object to the watch window so we could look at the content more easily?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported behavior in the VS Code C/C++ debugger on WSL Ubuntu 18.04, using the linked screenshot as context. Review how pretty-printers handle pointer indirection and consider the requested Watch Pointee menu item; done means pointer-wrapped STL values can be inspected more effectively or a clear pointee-watch action is available.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100