We already have stepping tests for Kotlin/JVM.
They are helpful for testing the correctness of the generated
debugging information.
They are better than line number tests in that they allow to test the
_behavior_, not the generated data. The structure of the data may change
even if the behavior stays the same. For that reason, stepping tests
are more stable.
This change improves the debugging experience around local functions
on the IR backend. The changes include moving old
checkLocalVariablesTable (cLVT) tests to the new stepping/local variable
infrastructure in order to refine the tests and further define the
behavior of the two JVM backends, and their differences.
The primary ported test case is cLVT/localFun.kt that documents the
discrepancy in implementation strategy for local functions on the two
backends. The old backend implements local functions as lambdas
assigned to a local variable while the IR backend lifts them out as
static funtions on the surrounding class. The discrepancies and their
consequences are documented in bytecodeListing, idea-stepping,
localVariableTable and debugStepping tests.
The only _code change_ is disabling the captured variable name
mangling for captured variables on the IR backend. Captured variables
are passed as arguments to the static function, so in the debugger,
they really just are local variables. For them to show properly in the
debugger and be detectable by evaluate expression, they simply need no
mangling.
Finally, this change cleans 3 redundant cLVT tests, copyFunction.kt
and destructuringInlineLambda.kt and destructuringInFor.kt, that are
all covered in the new suite. The stepping behavior needs to be made
precise around for loops, but that is an entirely seperate issue.
Artem Kobzar