microsoft/vscode-cpptools

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Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.

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Dominant language: TypeScript
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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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1,388 open issues indexed

[vscode-gdb-debug] gdb stuck at launch - any command gives "Unable to perform this action because the process is running" Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13667 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2025
(C++23) Fails to parse a particular lambda expression within an initializer list Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13665 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2025
gdb debugger set auto-load safe-path / no effect Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13663 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Duplicate debug attach options appear in the Debug or Configure Active File dropdown if any attach configs exist in launch.json Open

bug debugger help wanted tasks/build/debug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13655 · 1 comment · Opened May 29, 2025
Debugger launched executable seems not able to access wsl command Open

debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13641 · Opened May 27, 2025
doesn't work under custom devcontainer Open

bug help wanted Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13637 · 4 comments · Opened May 25, 2025
"wsl" "/usr/bin/gdb-multiarch --interpreter=mi" No such file or directory Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13626 · 6 comments · Opened May 22, 2025
range-v3 no operator "|" matches these operands Open

bug Language Service parser verified Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13619 · 1 comment · Opened May 20, 2025
C++ launch json documentation wrong (outdated) Open

bug debugger docs help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13614 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2025
typeof incorrectly removes qualifiers in some situations (with C clang/gcc modes) Open

Feature: Configuration Language Service verified Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13613 · 3 comments · Opened May 16, 2025
It takes way too long to finish tag parsing of modified files after a find/replace Open

bug Language Service performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13609 · Opened May 14, 2025
"Add Debug Configuration" is not available if the active file is not in the workspace Open

bug tasks/build/debug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13595 · Opened May 9, 2025
Language service features don't work in WSL (Ubuntu 24) when a Windows C:\ file is open Open

bug Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13594 · Opened May 8, 2025
Incorrect Memory address return by Cppvsdbg debugger for memory inspection Open

bug debugger Visual Studio

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13589 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2025
ipch files are created in all caps on Windows Open

bug Language Service

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13582 · Opened May 1, 2025
gdb attaching to mpi process unable to retrieve stack trace and variables Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13579 · 1 comment · Opened May 1, 2025
if typing while gdb is trying to print something,the integrated terminal and gdb will froze Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13577 · 1 comment · Opened May 1, 2025
Don't override sticky scroll settings if intellisense is disabled, to avoid conflicts with Clangd Open

enhancement help wanted Language Service

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13574 · 8 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Apr 30, 2025
Adding implementation to a method that is an override of a virtual method doesn't work. Open

bug Feature: Create Declaration or Definition Language Service regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13573 · Opened Apr 30, 2025
Debugger not waiting for gdb kill/vkill packet reply and killing gdb-server Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13572 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2025
IntelliSense does not recognize the __typeof__ operator Open

bug Language Service parser Visual Studio

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13556 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2025
function breakpoints are not shown in text editor Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13547 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 24, 2025
Constant CPU usage from cpptools.exe scanning workspace Open

Language Service more info needed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13546 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 24, 2025
lldb-dap integration Open

debugger Feature Request

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13543 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2025
stopAtConnect is not stopping early enough. Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13541 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2025
False positive declaration-is-incompatible in C on static function that takes a tagged struct type defined within another struct Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13536 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2025
"anonymous namespace" should be "unnamed namespace" in C++ Open

bug Language Service more votes needed Visual Studio

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13533 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 18, 2025
Doxygen var command not parsed Open

enhancement Feature: Doc comments Language Service

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13530 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 17, 2025
Using GCC with MinGW Tutorial from https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw Open

debugger more info needed question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13519 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2025
Add debugger view for loaded modules Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13514 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 15, 2025
MacOS 15.4 M1 Error while trying to enter break state. Debugging will now stop. LLDB exited unexpectedly with exit code 139 Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13496 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2025
Contents of `c_cpp_properties.json` file can get irrecoverably deleted Open

Feature: Configuration investigate: repro Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13491 · Opened Apr 11, 2025
`cppdbg` add `postRunCommands` config in `launch.json` Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13483 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 10, 2025
New Attach/preattach - waitFor feature Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13463 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 6, 2025
includePath doesn't work but when I forceInclude all intelsense error are gone Open

Feature: Configuration Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13445 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2025
Accepting a code completion suggestion erases symbol to the right of the cursor Open

enhancement Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13440 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 30, 2025
Find All References doesn't work with certain dynamic-init constructor calls Open

bug Feature: Find All References Language Service Works in VS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13437 · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Function type instance: Go to definition of function type goes to return type Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13433 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 27, 2025
`_FloatXX` types not highlighted properly Open

bug Language Service verified

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13415 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 25, 2025
IntelliSense fails on zero-initialization of non-type template parameter Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13409 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2025
multi-argument operator[] breaks intellisense Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13407 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 23, 2025
Incorrect calculation of long double Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13399 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 21, 2025
Hovering `_Float16`s displays the wrong value Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13395 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 21, 2025
GDB Showing Dead Threads? Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13393 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2025
Launch started the debug server successfully, but timeout and return a failed to initialize error Open

debugger

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13382 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 18, 2025
C++23 literal operator for std::size_t not recognized Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13371 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 13, 2025
Disassembly view fails to load when starting a debug session with pre-set instruction breakpoints Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13367 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2025
Unable to Start Debugging in WSL CentOS 7.9 Environment Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13363 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2025
Duplicate "Run" or "Debug" buttons appear simultaneously Open

external more info needed

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13350 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 8, 2025
Performance Testing Continues Open

Automated test

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13341 · Opened Mar 5, 2025

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