mib added inline comments.

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Comment at: lldb/source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/LibCxx.cpp:637
     if (location_sp->GetName() == g_size_name)
-      location_sp = short_sp->GetChildAtIndex(3, true);
+      location_sp = short_sp->GetChildAtIndex(2, true);
     if (using_bitmasks)
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mib wrote:
> aprantl wrote:
> > Let me know if I',m misunderstanding what the code is doing, but this looks 
> > like it is replacing the previous implementation? Ideally we would detect 
> > the layout and then parse it correctly depending on which version we're 
> > dealing with. Otherwise we risk breaking the matrix bot that checks that 
> > LLDB can debug C++ produced by older versions of LLVM (and by extension 
> > libcxx).
> I've look at D12828 and D123580, and I don't see any way of versioning these 
> changes ... may be @ldionne have an idea on how we could do this properly ?
> 
> Also, in D124113, @labath mentions that this data formatter uses mostly 
> indices to parse and access the various fields of the type data structure 
> (because it uses some anonymous structs). This makes it very fragile on our 
> end because our data formatter break every time they make a change in the 
> layout ...
> 
> @aprantl, I'll update the line your pointed at to the the field identifier 
> instead of using changing the index while waiting for a better way to version 
> this.
@aprantl, I'll update the line you pointed at to *use* the field identifier 
instead of using changing the index, while waiting for a better way to version 
this.


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