probinson added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D54187#1290294, @zturner wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D54187#1290282, @probinson wrote:
>
> > +gbedwell
> >
> > Just to throw the idea out there, why not abandon debuginfo-tests entirely 
> > and try using Dexter for this. Dexter's design center is debug-info 
> > quality, not correctness, but it already knows how to drive several 
> > different debuggers on multiple platforms.
> >  Dexter would have to become an LLVM project tool, and I'm not sure how 
> > Sony management feels about that, but I think this would be an awesome 
> > use-case.
>
>
> Depends where we draw the distinction between quality and correctness.  We 
> specifically want a way to test that when we fix a correctness bug, it's 
> actually fixed against Microsoft debuggers.


Dexter knows how to drive Visual Studio tools already, as well as gdb and 
(maybe) lldb.  I have never looked inside it but I'd expect Greg to have made 
it straightforward to add new tools.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D54187



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