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Natvis support #709
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Hi, will Miscrosoft Natvis (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj620914.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396) work with or is it possible to be supported by GDB through this MIEngine ? Thanks.
Hi, will Miscrosoft Natvis (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj620914.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396) work with or is it possible to be supported by GDB through this MIEngine ? Thanks.
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gregg-miskelly commentedon May 2, 2018
The MIEngine has a partial implementation of natvis -- https://github.com/Microsoft/MIEngine/tree/master/src/MIDebugEngine/Natvis.Impl
In the regular C++ VS debugger, the C++ expression evaluator (EE) is owned by the Visual Studio team and therefore it can support the entirety of natvis, and it can optimize the C++ EE to make it fast.
In MIEngine, natvis has to be built on top of the GDB EE, so things don't work quite as well. But there are still pretty good chunks of natvis that can be implemented, and are fast enough to provide value.
digittigerw commentedon May 3, 2018
Ha, good to know. Thanks !