Feature request: Show generated code

[linuxtim]

For reasons such as performance optimisation and debugging, it's reasonably common to inspect the output of the various compilation stages which software goes through e.g.

• Results of macro expansion
• Compiler intermediate code representation
• Bytecode
• Assembly language

Some examples of existing IDE-specific integrations and extensions which allow this are https://github.com/mre/cargo-inspect-vscode and https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/plugins/ByteCodeViewer

I'm not particularly familiar with LSP, but thought LSP would be the best mechanism to support this.

[rcjsuen]

Could fit in the LSP or the BSP possibly (#512).

[dbaeumer]

IMO this is a dup of https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/336 which would allow providing content for a URI schema from the server. The file containing the Results of macro expansion would have its own schema so that the content comes from the server.

OK to mark as dup?

[tim-seoss]

Hi Dirk,

I don't think I can offer a sufficiently informed opinion about whether this should be judged a dup of #336 or not. Do others have opinions on this? Alternatively, if you judge this to be sufficiently clear-cut, please go-ahead.

[dbaeumer]

I will mark it as a dup then since providing the feature requested there will allow implementing what you want.

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Happy Coding!

[dbaeumer]

Dups #336