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Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo')
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs index 896af8a9191..d1bbf74307c 100644 --- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs +++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs @@ -94,7 +94,14 @@ pub fn push_debuginfo_type_name<'tcx>( push_debuginfo_type_name(tcx, inner_type, true, output, visited); if cpp_like_names { - output.push('*'); + // Slices and `&str` are treated like C++ pointers when computing debug + // info for MSVC debugger. However, adding '*' at the end of these types' names + // causes the .natvis engine for WinDbg to fail to display their data, so we opt these + // types out to aid debugging in MSVC. + match *inner_type.kind() { + ty::Slice(_) | ty::Str => {} + _ => output.push('*'), + } } } ty::Array(inner_type, len) => { |