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Summary:
Sometimes users think that setting a function regex for all function that contain the word 'needle' in their
name looks like this: `*needle*`. However, LLDB only searches the function name and doesn't fully match
it against the regex, so the leading and trailing '*' operators don't do anything and actually just cause the
regex engine to reject the regular expression with "repetition-operator operand invalid".

This patch makes this a bit more obvious to the user by printing a warning that a leading '*' before this
regular expression here doesn't have any purpose (and will cause an error). This doesn't attempt to detect
a case where there is only a trailing '*' as that would involve parsing the regex and it seems the most
common way to end up in this situation is by doing `rbreak *needle*`.

Reviewers: JDevlieghere

Reviewed By: JDevlieghere

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78809
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Teemperor committed May 6, 2020
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions lldb/source/Commands/CommandObjectBreakpoint.cpp
Expand Up @@ -622,6 +622,14 @@ class CommandObjectBreakpointSet : public CommandObjectParsed {
result.AppendErrorWithFormat(
"Function name regular expression could not be compiled: %s",
llvm::toString(std::move(err)).c_str());
// Check if the incorrect regex looks like a globbing expression and
// warn the user about it.
if (!m_options.m_func_regexp.empty()) {
if (m_options.m_func_regexp[0] == '*' ||
m_options.m_func_regexp[0] == '?')
result.AppendWarning(
"Function name regex does not accept glob patterns.");
}
result.SetStatus(eReturnStatusFailed);
return false;
}
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Expand Up @@ -12,3 +12,19 @@ def test_error(self):
self.expect("breakpoint set --func-regex (", error=True,
substrs=["error: Function name regular expression could " +
"not be compiled: parentheses not balanced"])

# Point out if looks like the user provided a globbing expression.
self.expect("breakpoint set --func-regex *a", error=True,
substrs=["error: Function name regular expression could " +
"not be compiled: repetition-operator operand invalid",
"warning: Function name regex does not accept glob patterns."])
self.expect("breakpoint set --func-regex ?a", error=True,
substrs=["error: Function name regular expression could " +
"not be compiled: repetition-operator operand invalid",
"warning: Function name regex does not accept glob patterns."])
# Make sure that warning is only shown for invalid regular expressions
# that look like a globbing expression (i.e., they have a leading * or ?).
self.expect("breakpoint set --func-regex a*+", error=True, matching=False,
substrs=["warning: Function name regex does not accept glob patterns."])
self.expect("breakpoint set --func-regex a?+", error=True, matching=False,
substrs=["warning: Function name regex does not accept glob patterns."])

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