STL.natvis: Add c_str intrinsic function#5997
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This PR adds a `c_str` intrinsic function to std::basic_string so that it is easier to compare the value of an std::string in a conditional breakpoint.
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@gregg-miskelly Thanks for triple-mirroring this as VS-PR-698144! I'll get this merged to GitHub and MSVC in my next merge batch. |
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I'm mirroring this to the MSVC-internal repo - please notify me if any further changes are pushed. |
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Thanks for improving one of our most important visualizers, and congratulations on your first microsoft/STL commit! 😸 🟥🟩
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This PR adds a
c_strintrinsic function to std::basic_string so that it is easier to compare the value of an std::string in a conditional breakpoint. Ideally, we would also includeoperator==andoperator!=implementations, but CppDebug doesn't have a good way of implementing that currently, but this is still a useful start.Example of comparing an std::string too a string literal in a conditional breakpoints with this change:
strcmp(myStdStringVariable.c_str(), "some_literal") == 0