aprantl added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D54187#1290298, @probinson wrote:

> 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.


If it fits our use-cases, that sounds like a great idea. Are there some 
examples of dexter input/outputs we could take a look at to see how good of a 
fit it would be?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D54187



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